Bjork Quotes
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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I find most children quite inspiring.
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I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
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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.
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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
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Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.
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A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
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There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
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Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
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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.
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
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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.
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Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.
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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.
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My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.
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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.
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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.
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Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
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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.