I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
BJORKI have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
BJORKWhen 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.
BJORKIt takes a long time to fully become who you are.
BJORKIn 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
BJORKIt wasn’t just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.
BJORKIt’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.
BJORKI get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
BJORKIt’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
BJORKI 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.
BJORKI get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I’ve got a lot of work to do, let’s put it that way.
BJORKYou get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
BJORKI 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.
BJORKI am grateful… grapefruit.
BJORKA lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
BJORKIf travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
BJORKI 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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