If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy. Bjork More Quotes by Bjork More Quotes From Bjork 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. 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 iceland healthy country I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. 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. Bjork records perfect thinking 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. Bjork emergencies century age I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money. Bjork stuff trying pay There's no map to human behaviour. Bjork maps behaviour humans What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and romantic about the power of melodies. 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 singing circles editing I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace. Bjork embrace years thinking There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all Bjork maps behaviour helping I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths. Bjork iceland hiking path I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don’t have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. Bjork iceland war country I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs. Bjork awards input eggs I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that. Bjork feelings stuff thinking Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we're not. For me, it is really exciting to take the cutting edge technology and take it as far as it can get virtually, use it to describe/control the musicology or the behavior of raw natural elements, and then plug it with a sound source which is the most acoustic one there is - like gamelan and pipe organ. So you get the extremes: very virtual and very physical. In that way you shift the physicality. Bjork cutting technology sound When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news. Bjork news political reading I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds. Bjork chemistry sound song 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. My parents were born in 1945-46. Our movement at the punk times was like, we can sing in Icelandic, we are strong. Bjork parent strong thinking 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. Bjork chorus writing song I feel Icelandic people are really good at gathering together information and brain power. We're better at that than some kind of Las Vegas money gambling. I mean, I really admire the characteristics in Icelandics, this adventureism. We are famous for it. We are addicted to risk to the point of being foolhardy. And I think that is great in brain power stuff. Bjork mean people thinking 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 people thinking I mean, I've never been thinking that if you're a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you've got a choice. If you don't want it, just don't buy it. It's also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files. A 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. As much as I love the whole pirate kind of thing, the quality suffers. Bjork pirate mean thinking
