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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

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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Energy Males Women
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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Celebration Oxygen Singing
But I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
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Emotional Movement Political
Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
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Kids Thinking Writing
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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Albums People Years
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
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
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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Guess Understood Used
I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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Easy Ipads Powered Wind
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.
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Done Educate People Thinking Year
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
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
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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Broken Cracks Day Wake
i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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Eye Eyes Harm Self Slamming Sound Suicide
People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
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Needs People Physically Wants
How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.
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Dream Lazy Love Thinking
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Asking Iceland People
And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
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Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof
It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
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Becomes Long Take Time
You 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.
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Back Done Few Inspired Show
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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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Boys Chess Favorite Girl Math
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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Buddhist Enlightenment Hope
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.
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Everything Girl Men Once Say Support
There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
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Book Movie Ourselves Understanding
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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Important Options Something Study
Formats are just illusions, and it’s about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music.
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Illusion Iron Make Mold Music Relationship
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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Scientists Singers Songwriter

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