Bjork Quotes

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

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

Nature is our chapel.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

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

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

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

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

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.

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.

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.

I'm going to prove the impossible really exists

I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

Create a paradise anywhere you go.

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.

There's more to Life than this

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me.

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

If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.

Love is a two way dream.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

There's no map to human behaviour.

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.

I'm a whisper in water.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I am grateful... grapefruit.