I’ve always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
BJORKI’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
More Bjork Quotes
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I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
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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.
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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.
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Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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There’s more to Life than this
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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.
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If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
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People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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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.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
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The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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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.
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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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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.
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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.
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
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I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay
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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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