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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

Bjork

When 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.
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Chorus Song Writing
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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Buddhist Enlightenment Hope
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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Guess Understood Used
Nature is our chapel.
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Chapel Nature Our
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
It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
BJORK

Care Females People
People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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Needs People Physically Wants
The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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Interviews Reason Song
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
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
Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
BJORK

Everything Example Nothing Perfect Smooth
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
BJORK

Energy Males Women
I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
BJORK

Generation Parent Strong Thinking
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I’ve done that all my life.
BJORK

Done Person Song Time Tunes
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
BJORK

House Musical Musician
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
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Chemistry Song Sound

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