Bjork Quotes
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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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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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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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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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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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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 find most children quite inspiring.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. 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.
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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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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.