I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
BJORKThere’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
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But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
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Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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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.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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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.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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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.
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I’m a whisper in water.
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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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.
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Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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Nature is our chapel.
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