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I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

Bjork

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
BJORK

Believe Interview Spirit
You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
BJORK

Coward Something Stand
You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
BJORK

Life Lying Poet
National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
BJORK

Labels Lemurs Sharks
There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
BJORK

Body Half Mind
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
BJORK

Eggs Football Sorry
Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
BJORK

Cake Choosing Flavors Ice Cream Personally Women
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
BJORK

Country Iceland Rocks Teenager
Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
BJORK

Country Healthy Iceland
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’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.
BJORK

Bisexual Men Powerful
I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
BJORK

Contradiction Country Everywhere Relationship
It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
BJORK

Big Nice Quiet
It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
BJORK

Important Options Something Study
Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
BJORK

Illusion Iron Make Mold Music Relationship
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
BJORK

Scientists Singers Songwriter

I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

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