I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
— 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.
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'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.
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.
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.
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
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.
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.
Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
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'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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.
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.
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.
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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.
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
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.
I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
If nothing else, I have money.
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
People that complete other people's vision are understated.
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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.
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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.
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 am a grateful... grapefruit.
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.
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.
Nature is our chapel.
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
There's no map to human behaviour.
