The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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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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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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 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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There’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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I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
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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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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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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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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.
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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.
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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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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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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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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.
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Love is a two way dream.
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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!’
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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.
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It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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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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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’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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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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