Bjork Quotes

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.

The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.

I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is enlightmentment

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

Nature is our chapel.

Coincidence makes sense only with you.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.

Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.

I think connecting natural elements and musicology is probably pretty idiosyncratic of me, so it is hard to imagine anyone else going down that route.

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs.

I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

I thrive best hermit style.
with a beard and a pipe.

I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

the word "nature" and the word "techno" mean the same thing . depends if you look at it from the past or from the future . for example , a little cabin in the mountains : an ape thinks it's techno , it is the future . but for us it has become nature . we must live with both . it is very important . we can't be just nature or just techno .
the word "nature" and the word "techno" mean the same thing . depends if you look at it from the past or from the future . for example , a little cabin in the mountains : an ape thinks it's techno , it is the future . but for us it has become nature . we must live with both . it is very important . we can't be just nature or just techno .

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

Kids draw masterpieces - they're the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools. It's important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.

When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

I'm going to prove the impossible really exists

I am a grateful ... grapefruit.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

I grew up with all these hippies. Ten of them and one of me. None of them wanted to work and spent all their time talking and dreaming and fooling around. 90% of that hippie stuff is just bullshit but the ideals of that generation were very beautiful and powerful and rebellious. I had to dress and feed myself from the time I was six, which meant I became a very organised person. But there came a point when I was about seven or eight, when I saw the absurdity of living in a commune and I said to them, Why don't you just DO SOMETHING!?

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Americans are so dumb!

I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.

Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

Who would have known
That a boy like him
Would have entered me lightly
Restoring my blisses
Who would have known
That a boy like him
After sharing my core
Would stay going nowhere

There's more to Life than this

Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

If nothing else, I have money.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour ... There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora's box a little bit and air it out.

Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

I am half child, half ancient.

I miss you, but I haven't met you yet!

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.

Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

Love is a two way dream.

What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and romantic about the power of melodies. I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it's good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage.

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.

Create a paradise anywhere you go.

There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.

I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me ...

[When asked 'Given the chance, how would you change the world?']
It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

The relationship changes as you learn more about people, and the work sort of takes on its own life. I enjoy this very much.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

You can't say no to hope,
Can't say no to happiness!

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.

I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.

On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's Pagan poetry
Pagan poetry

People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them.

Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

Everyone is bisexual": "I've always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic. I think everyone's bisexual to some degree or another; it's just a question of whether or not you choose to recognise it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

All is full of love

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.