Bjork Quotes

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

Americans are so dumb!

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me.

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.

People that complete other people's vision are understated.

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

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

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!

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

I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs.

I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'

I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

The relationship changes as you learn more about people, and the work sort of takes on its own life. I enjoy this very much.

It's nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!

If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That's what women do a lot - they're the glue between a lot of things.

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

There's so many songs about heartbreak that exist this in the world, because music is somehow the perfect medium to express something like this.

I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.

If nothing else, I have money.

All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals...and they killed Elvis Presley.

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

It wasn't just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.

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.

Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

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 learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things. It's tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.