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.
BJORKGirls now are also faced with different problems. I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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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.
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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.
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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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It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
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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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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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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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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 am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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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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If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
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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.
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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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