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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

Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
BJORK

Declare Independence Let
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.
BJORK

Country Iceland Rocks Teenager
I lose energy and I can’t do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I’m not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it’s necessary.
BJORK

Anything Doing Lose Necessary
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
BJORK

Song Thinking Visualized Writing
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.
BJORK

Good Internet People Stylist Very
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
BJORK

Criminals People Vampire
When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn’t after their money.
BJORK

Apples Done Punk
Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
BJORK

Country Healthy Iceland
I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
BJORK

Contradiction Country Everywhere Relationship
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
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
BJORK

Eggs Football Sorry
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.
BJORK

Ending Hear Pop Record Subconsciousness
If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.
BJORK

Beautiful Philosophy Support
Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
BJORK

Illusion Iron Make Mold Music Relationship
I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORK

Everything Girl Men Once Say Support
It wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
BJORK

Everybody Getting Journalist Wrong

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.

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