Top 186 Quotes & Sayings by Bjork

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

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.

Nature is our chapel.

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.

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.

I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.

I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.

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

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

Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.

It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.

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

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

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.

There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

There's no map to human behaviour.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

I am a grateful... grapefruit.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

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

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

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

Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.

I went through an anti-Establishment phase and thought we should get everything for free.

The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.

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.

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.

We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.

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

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

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.

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.

People that complete other people's vision are understated.

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.

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.

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. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.

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.

When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

If nothing else, I have money.