Okay, this is going to be pretty long, and a bit of a mess
Bjork seems very close to her family. She describes herself as introverted and often says how shy she is in interviews. She describes writing in her diarys as a 'private friendship' that she uses when 'everything collapses'. She says she feels she had a lot to do before she dies but also describes her life so far as 'going with the flow'. She speaks of things just happening to her unplanned a lot. She describes falling in love, as if it creeps up on her, and says each time she falls in love it's very different and they all stand for different things in her.
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From what I've read before Bjork felt she grew up very quickly and had to develop a strong maturity in her childhood. She said how she always kept a bit of herself inside as a child so in that way she still feels very child like. She seems to work very intensely on her music whilst she's developing it. Each album seems to come from a very deep part of her guided by her feelings about how it should be. It's a natural growth related to who she is.
She describes her sampling process as being a bit like a librarian, Looking for flavours, collecting and classifying. Part of her is the opposite of that, being ready to record when something happens. She generally sees how her music should be before she makes it but says how a lot happens that isn't planned. She says she likes to get people involved in her music as she likes surprises.
She describes talking, communicating through language as 'like putting an ocean through a straw', as she finds it difficult to communicate how she feels and that music does this for her like a 'warm embrace'.
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'Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age' | Review | The Observer
On her dress sense:'It's like music. So long as it's a form of self-expression, I'm quite into it, but not when it becomes about power status. I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.'
She says that she resolutely avoids celebrity parties but one day might like to run a music school for children. '
On Britain:You are very good at skimming corruption off the top and revealing the integrity inside. In Britain things have to be pure,'.
From here:[url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1708479,00.html]The Emma Brockes interview: Bj