Björk - Interview on ARTE - Why Are You Creative? (2002)

what drives you why are you creative hmm I'm not sure I think I've always been like this it's just the way I can't do anything else I don't know anything else but then again at the same time I don't feel that I'm not different from say folks on the rest of my family and it would not be quite creative that I thought you know they they make fireplaces and are elephants and and and that they're very obsessed with what they do mm-hmm but I'm not very good for having holidays for this kind of thing say I think I'm a measure of 24/7 kind of person your creativity does that drive more on chaos or more discipline I think for me personally it's it's a both it works and right now my discipline seems to be mostly in when I arrange music or or when I'm doing like collecting libraries of beats or or the studio process is very disciplined and very focused and and with my voice for example and my songwriting is certainly opposite its and where I would never left the analytical side of me in there because it it's a Tempe early destructive but um but luckily enough and all of us have got a very young and unpredictable nature and the unpredictable mood swings all the time all of us I think it's not our role to to try to control that I think it's more when you wake up and you really are enjoying discipline do something that takes that and when you wake up in the morning and you just want to run around in the snow and write songs do that so but I guess that the luxury of being self-employed is you can sort of do it whenever you're in the mood to much thinking was damien hirst in the BBC one's asked some some reporter asking was one of these things art pieces he said well i could have done that but then Damien said yes but you didn't yeah which which I think wasn't it is interesting to say that basically everybody could do it yeah for sure I think everybody could do it and also for me maybe I'm not so concerned about it it's creative enough because it's a funny word maybe because I'm brother for such working-class situation and with the people I admire most like my grandmother and my grandparents and my family and if you would look at their passport know one of them says at this you know but for me all of them have been very brave and and completely stood if I was they are made of and sometimes just to take care of in Wolong shop it's very create a thing or two to feed the eight children can be very pro-life statement with all the human transition and everybody want him to stop you so so and my my grandfather he will show me a fireplace he has just made and Polaroid of it just as proud as I was playing my song so yeah so creative it for me you

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Published: Fri May 04 2012