Bjork's Quotes

I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her. — Jon Stewart

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

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

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

I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth. — Rainn Wilson

You show me continents, I see the islands, You count the centuries, I blink my eyes. — Bjork

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. — Bjork

Nature is our chapel. — Bjork

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

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork. — Ellie Goulding

I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying? — B.o.B

I never really understood the word 'loneliness'. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature. — Bjork

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

The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle. — Bjork

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

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

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

Americans are so dumb! — Bjork

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

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

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. — Bjork

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen. — Bjork

I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is enlightmentment — Bjork

Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me. — Bjork

There's more to Life than this — Bjork

All is full of love — Bjork

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords. — Bjork

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

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

People that complete other people's vision are understated. — Bjork

When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice. — Ellie Goulding

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. — Bjork

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. — Bjork

There's no map to human behaviour. — Bjork

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

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

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! — Bjork

I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions. — Bjork

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Bjork

I mostly write on my own, walking, outside. — Bjork

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

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

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

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. — Bjork

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

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

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

You can't say no to hope,
Can't say no to happiness! — Bjork

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

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

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

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around. — Bjork

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

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

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

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

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

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. — Bjork

I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer. — Bjork

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. — Bjork

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. — Bjork

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

Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much. — Catherine Deneuve

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

If nothing else, I have money. — Bjork

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. — Bjork

Imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks. When it lands will my eyes be closed or open? — Bjork

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

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. — Bjork

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

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

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

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

But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath. — Sara Shepard

I'm going to prove the impossible really exists — Bjork

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

On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's Pagan poetry
Pagan poetry — Bjork

You shouldn't let poets lie to you. — Bjork

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

I'm a whisper in water. — Bjork

Love is a two way dream. — Bjork

I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student. — Bjork

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. — Bjork

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!' — Bjork

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

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

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. — Bjork

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

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. — Bjork

I am half child, half ancient. — Bjork

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

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

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. — Bjork

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal. — Bjork