Bjork Quotes
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Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
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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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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
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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'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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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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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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Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.
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Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.
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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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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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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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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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I find most children quite inspiring.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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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.
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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.
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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.