It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
BJORKIt seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
BJORKI do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
BJORKWhen I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
BJORKI’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.
BJORKIf you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
BJORKA lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
BJORKYou get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
BJORKFootball is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
BJORKI was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
BJORKWhen I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
BJORKI’ve always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
BJORKThere’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
BJORKIt’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.
BJORKI love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
BJORKSeventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
BJORKI feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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