Quotes By Bjork

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

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.

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

There's no map to human behaviour.

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

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.

I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

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

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 love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

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

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

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

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

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

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.

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.

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

Nature is our chapel.