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.
Interpretation
Creativity can flourish at any age, and late starts can still lead to great artistic endeavors.
In this quote, Bjork reflects on the delayed release of her first album at the age of 27, which she notes is considered late in the music industry. However, rather than seeing this as a disadvantage, she describes the joy and excitement she felt when she finally had the opportunity to create and collaborate with various musical instruments and ensembles, emphasizing that artistic expression can thrive regardless of timing.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing dreams regardless of age.
I've always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic. I think everyone's bisexual to some degree or another; it's just a question of whether or not you choose to recognise it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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.
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.
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.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
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