All Is Full Of Love

All Is Full Of Love
That song’s from a moment when I’d had a pretty rough winter and then it was a spring morning and I walked outside and the birds were singing : spring is here ! I wrote the song in one day. It just clicked - you know, you’re being too stubborn, don’t be so silly, there’s love everywhere. The feeling, the emotion of the song was like completely melting and loving everything and feeling like everuthing loved you, after a long time of not having that. The song, in essence, is actually about believing in love. Love isn’t just about two persons, it’s everywhere around you. Even if you’re not getting love from Person A, it doesn’t mean there’s not love there. Obviously, it’s taking the piss too - it’s the most sugary song ever. ’All Is Full Of Love’ was written after the rest of...

Record Collector, August 2002

Björk à propos du titre All Is Full Of Love
I guess waking up after having been in Spain for six months in the mountains...with few people. It was kind of solitary. And it was April, and I had to walk in the morning...around the mountains. And spring just kicked in. It was definitely nature-inspired. On a more personal level. It’s about when you have been too stubborn about giving love to one particular direction...you expect it back ...likes it’s a bank or something. And kind of realizing that it’s up to you what you give, but it’s not up to you what you are given and where from.

Bjork.com webchat, 22 june 2000

Björk à propos du titre All Is Full Of Love
The original version was the one used for the video. Then I decided to ask Howie to make a version of it that captured the atmosphere when the sun comes out after a thunderstorm.

Livebox interview, 2002

the video for All is full of love
The video’s definitely got that ’hyperbeauty’. that sensuality in dead things. I guess. All my friends say they touch toasters differently after they’ve seen that video.

Flipside 1999-06-12

the video for All is full of love
That video is very, very, Chris Cunningham, and I don’t think my part in it was controlling at all. I came up with some beginnings of things just to describe the songs. I gave him some little Chinese statues, the erotic ones of ivory, so it was sort of white material that would melt together because of lovemaking, and he took that, and thought about it and called me later with : "how about robots ?" So that video was completely his idea ; it’s not controlled. And it’s trust as well. It’s trust, and in that particular relationship I would say each role was different. My job was to protect him and provide him with a good working environment, and that he didn’t have to worry about business and money and all this rubbish and the marketing. And also most people have like : "the...

The Times, 2 august 2001