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Girls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.

Bjork

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
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 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.
BJORK

Air Feminist Littles Pandora
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.
BJORK

Done Educate People Thinking Year
I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
BJORK

Amateur Going Knows People Politics Talk
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
I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
BJORK

Blogger Depend Jockey Recommended Something
I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
BJORK

Easy Ipads Powered Wind
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 ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
BJORK

Course Looks People Silly Walk
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.
BJORK

Chorus Song Writing
The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
BJORK

Eye Important People Photograph Understand
Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
BJORK

Age Feminist Maybe Old
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

Arrogant People Quiet Thinking
I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
BJORK

Composition Country Firsts Iceland
I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can’t blame the computer. If there’s no soul in the music, it’s because nobody put it there.
BJORK

Music People Soul

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