‘If guys don’t want me to write songs about them, they shouldn’t do bad things! And if they’re afraid, going into the relationship, that they’re going to end up having a bad song written about them… Well, then they don’t have the best of intentions, do they? It’s a nice weeding-out process.’

One of the half dozen or so really good quotes in this extensive Taylor Swift profile in the Daily Mail.

There are a lot of reasons I really love Bjork, though the main ones are the same reason everyone loves Bjork–she has a supernatural voice unlike anyone before or since and she’s got an incredible and inspiring artistic vision for everything shes does, pulling in all the coolest artists and directors and musicians you have never really heard of and collaborating with them. AND. She’s I think 43 or 44 now, and her music is more youthful and cutting edge and with it than anyone typical expects. When you get older (44 is not old, 70 is old) it’s expected all your youthful vim and vigor are firmly behind you and that your new albums will never be as potent and alive as your first one or two. NOT BJORK.

Anyhow, here is an interview she did with some Frenchy dudes in INTERVIEW magazine; they are trying to interview her and their questions are pretty typical, but then Bjork says “I have some questions for you” and starts asking them “How many hours a day do you wish you could work outside?” and about how easy or hard it might be to build your own hut. I started it from the third page, where it starts getting going, you will have to click back if you want to read the intro/etc.

The Girls Guide to Rocking comes out today in the UK, so tell your friend in England/Ireland/etc.

Also, there is this inspirational thing: and interview with Agnes Varda. She is not a musician but she has a musician’s spirit–and she is in her 80’s now. When she was about 25 she started making films in France. She was a photographer and she just started making films with no real “training”, but had a lot of inspiration, and her first film launched “the nouvelle vague”–or the French New Wave of film making–which freed up, revolutionized even–filmmaking as a whole. Her latest film, Beaches of Agnes, is a documentary about her creative life that she made and it really inspired me–I am thinking about it still months later, all the time. Anyhow, in this interview, she is very precocious and French and not what you expect of a grandmother–she is so cool and a lot of what she talks about relates to making music, and being a beginner and just doing it.