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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.

Bjork

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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Chorus Song Writing
Nature is our chapel.
BJORK

Chapel Nature Our
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.
BJORK

House Musical Musician
There’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.
BJORK

Body Half Mind
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
BJORK

Energy Males Women
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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Communicate Easily People Scare Self
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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Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
BJORK

Behavior Helping Maps
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
BJORK

Singers Songwriter Writing
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
BJORK

Broken Cracks Day Wake
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.
BJORK

Conservatives Hands Hippie Upper
I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
BJORK

Blood Body Girl
I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
BJORK

Format People Product Religious Song
If nothing else, I have money.
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Else Money Nothing
It’s important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.
BJORK

Important Options Something Study
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

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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