Quotes By Bjork

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.

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.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

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

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

I am a grateful... grapefruit.

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.

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

People that complete other people's vision are understated.

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

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

If nothing else, I have money.

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.