The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
BJORKI have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
More Bjork Quotes
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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.
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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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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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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 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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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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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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I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible …
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You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could’ve done that in the 90s, I would have.
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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.
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Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.
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I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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