I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
BJORKThere is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
More Bjork Quotes
-
-
I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
BJORK -
Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
BJORK -
It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
BJORK -
Nature is our chapel.
BJORK -
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
BJORK -
Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
BJORK -
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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 -
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
BJORK -
Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
BJORK -
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
BJORK -
Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
BJORK -
I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
BJORK -
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
BJORK -
I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
BJORK -
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
BJORK -
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
BJORK -
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
BJORK -
When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
BJORK -
People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.
BJORK -
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
BJORK -
Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
BJORK -
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
BJORK -
People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
BJORK -
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.
BJORK -
And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
BJORK