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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.

Bjork

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
BJORK

Getting Hands High Hunting
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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Artist Color Image Writing
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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Chemistry Song Sound
There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
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Book Movie Ourselves Understanding
I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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Feelings Stuff Thinking
If nothing else, I have money.
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Else Money Nothing
I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
BJORK

Ending Hear Pop Record Subconsciousness
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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Song Thinking Visualized Writing
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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Embrace Thinking Years
You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
BJORK

Failing Great People Risk Safe
I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
BJORK

Amateur Going Knows People Politics Talk
I mean, I’ve never been thinking that if you’re a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you’ve got a choice. If you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files.
BJORK

Fan Mean Pirate Somebody Thinking
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
BJORK

Money Pay Stuff Trying
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
BJORK

News Political Reading
Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
BJORK

Blue Dark Evil
I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
BJORK

Biophilia Done Strange Trying

I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.

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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.

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