ZTV  1995-06-04

By ???

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"Interview transcript"


Speaker: There are some day when the Icelandic singer Björks life is 
just like any other tenant. You don't put up a satellite-dish on the 
roof of the tenement house without any complaint in the conservative 
part of London where Björk lives.

Björk: I had put satellite-dish on my roof. It was a present from a 
friend, and...and they are very offend and hurt now because I don't ask 
them first. So now I have a bit of battle, they want to get a lawyer and 
get me my satellite-dish down, but though, we see what happens. (she 
smiles)

They are all little excentrical these...mostly foreign who live on their 
own and they're quite lonely and they have nothing to do, so they have 
meetings once a week and deside that...what color they should paint the 
house then ??? talk about every year and they desided to paint it white 
again.

Speaker: You are not the only one disputing with the old ladys in the 
stairs, Björk has the same problem. And extra hard is it for her as she 
works alot at home. There she plans her videoshotings and stage- 
preformances.

Björk: I'm half, I'm actually think I'm half five-year-old and the other 
half of me is about fifty. But the side that's fifty of me is very 
private. And people don't see that side of me, because actually I'm very 
organized, I'm very disciplined. I work very much. And I've always been 
like this since I was a kid. And people just don't see that side of me, 
they see the five-year-old because that's the person that's outside, 
y'know.

Speaker: Disiplined and orginized is what she is. And when it comes to 
relationships, then Björk is quite conservative.

Björk: Ye, I'm very over-romantic and I very very much belive in 
relationships and... But I don't think they are as simple as being 
husband and wife, y'know. I definitely belive that there is something as 
meeting a person and being with her for the rest of your life.

Speaker: Björk is a tech-freak. She's very interested in music-
technology as well as things one use at home. The global network
InterNet for example, on which she is connected to.

Björk: Ye, I think InterNet is brilliant. It's the closesed to anarchy 
I've seen, y'know.

Interviewer: Do you use it yourself?

B: Ye. But at the same time people mustn't forget that these are just 
tools. And I think that people were terrified in the begining of the 
centuary when people discovered telephone. They were like - "But people 
are gonna stop meeting. They're just gonna talk on the telephone and 
beeing inside their houses all the time.". But it's nonsence y'know, of 
course, nothing will ever be a substitute for meeting another person. 
And people say - "Computers are gonna to take over and control us.", and 
so much nonsence. Just as much as telephone is not going to take over 
and control us. These things are just tools. But I think they're 
brilliant because they gives you so much freedom. And today for me, my 
point of view as a musician, and I think this is for most jobs, is I can 
have a DAT machine this big (holding her index fingers 20 cm apart) and 
record with the best possible quality, digital recording, with this big 
microphone (showing 3 cm) wherever I am. I could record an album in my 
toilet.