I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
BJORKNational Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
More Bjork Quotes
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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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You want people to take risks, and OK, they fail, but you don’t get the great stuff unless people are willing to risk and not play it safe. And maybe the Icelandic characteristic is better harnessed in these places than on the stock market.
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Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, ‘Oh, everybody’s perfect except me. Everything’s smooth except me.’ But nothing is smooth.
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You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.
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I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Love is a two way dream.
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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.
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We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking.
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