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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.

Bjork

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don’t like music that’s trippy for trippy’s sake.
BJORK

Conservative Part People Probably Sake
A 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.
BJORK

Best Low Possible Quality Rocking Sound Want
It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
BJORK

Becomes Long Take Time
Nature is our chapel.
BJORK

Chapel Nature Our
It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
BJORK

Everybody Getting Journalist Wrong
I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
BJORK

Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
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.
BJORK

Book Movie Ourselves Understanding
I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
BJORK

Bothered Ego Really
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
I 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.
BJORK

Awards Eggs Input
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORK

Five Guy Imagining Things
I am grateful… grapefruit.
BJORK

Fruit Grapes Grateful Honor
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
BJORK

Criminals People Vampire
You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
BJORK

Life Lying Poet
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
And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
BJORK

Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof

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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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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