As part of the process
of "cleaning out her attic", as she so cleverly put it, Björk was
interviewed by David Toop about her Greatest Hits and Family Tree
releases.
Read the intreview transcript here! |
 Toop
Interview pt 01
7.9mb Quicktime AVI
I've
been pretty excited about doing videos and working with
&
enjoying the process with the video directors, it sets me free
in a lot of ways. |
 Toop Interview
pt 02
5.2mb Quicktime AVI
I think, like
with everything, there are a lot of bad 'Greatest Hits' and there are a lot
of good ones. |
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pt 03
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"No!
nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah" until the clever people would click out of
their logical behaviour. |
 Toop Interview
pt 04
3.7mb Quicktime AVI
in the end
nature wins &
all the trees and plants grow all over all the sky-scrapers,
and it all becomes nature again. So I guess it’s some form of revenge. |
 Toop Interview
pt 05
7.7mb Quicktime AVI
I guess in
Homogenic I started to get a little more bossy. |
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pt 06
13mb Quicktime AVI
Basically my
songs are a collection of emotional peaks, even if they are gorgeous peaks
or painful ones. |
 Toop Interview
pt 07
6.4mb Quicktime AVI
I guess I don't
look at my albums to be sincere. I don't look at them being better or worse. |
 Toop
Interview pt 08
3.1mb Quicktime AVI
now I feel I'm
ready to do a proper album, that I have all the colours on the palette, and
I am ready to start. |
 Toop Interview
pt 09
8.5mb Quicktime AVI
Musically,
I was craving something that didn't fit into all that, and I felt slightly
criminal to want
even more than that. |
 Toop Interview
pt 10
13mb Quicktime AVI
Nellee
would do this same thing, blindfold me and take me off in the car and put me
into this cave, which was underground
&
full of bats. |
 Toop Interview
pt 11
6.4mb Quicktime AVI
We had got to
know one another's insides so well. Vespertine was then an album where we
wanted to go even further. |
