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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.

Bjork

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.
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Age Century Collaborate Emergencies
If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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Few Hour Invited Learned might Obsessed Practiced
Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
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Everything Example Nothing Perfect Smooth
Girls 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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Faced Girl Guilty Leaned Ten Years
Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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Emotion Feel Lying Powerful Probably
I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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Idiosyncratic Most People
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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Cents Cords Humidity Vocal
People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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Course Looks People Silly Walk
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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Eye Important People Photograph Understand
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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Complaining School Students
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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Conservatives Hands Hippie Upper
I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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Generation Parent Strong Thinking
Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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Every Format Mold Time
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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Century Forward Way Wind
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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Artist Color Image Writing
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.
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Song Thinking Visualized Writing

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