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I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.Collection: Bjork
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.Collection: Bjork
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.Collection: Bjork
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.Collection: Bjork
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.Collection: Bjork
I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.Collection: Bjork
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.Collection: Bjork
Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.Collection: 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.Collection: Bjork
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.Collection: Bjork
I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.Collection: Bjork
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.Collection: Bjork
Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, 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.Collection: Bjork
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.Collection: Bjork
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. 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.Collection: Bjork
Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!Collection: Bjork
In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.Collection: Bjork
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.Collection: Bjork
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.Collection: Bjork
I find most children quite inspiring.Collection: Bjork
We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.Collection: Bjork
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. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.Collection: Bjork
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.Collection: Bjork
While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.Collection: Bjork
In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.Collection: Bjork
I went through an anti-Establishment phase and thought we should get everything for free.Collection: Bjork
The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.Collection: Bjork
I think connecting natural elements and musicology is probably pretty idiosyncratic of me, so it is hard to imagine anyone else going down that route.Collection: Bjork
Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.Collection: Bjork
I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.Collection: Bjork
The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.Collection: Bjork
With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.Collection: Bjork
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.Collection: Bjork
I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.Collection: Bjork