I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
BJORKThere’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.
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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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Love is a two way dream.
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If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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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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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.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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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.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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Nature is our chapel.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.
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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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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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