Bjork Quotes
"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."
- Bjork
(Related: Nature, God, Church, America, Depression, Divorce, Europe)
"Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper."
- Bjork
(Related: Football, Trying)
"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."
- Bjork
(Related: Life, Music, Time, Song)
"I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family."
- Bjork
(Related: Family, Tradition)
"I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around."
- Bjork
(Related: People)
"I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days."
- Bjork
(Related: Music, Schools)
"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."
- Bjork
(Related: Nature, People, Care)
"Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age."
- Bjork
(Related: Age, Old)
"Nature is our chapel."
- Bjork
(Related: Nature)
"Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development."
- Bjork
(Related: Development, Now)
"People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland."
- Bjork
(Related: People)
"People that complete other people's vision are understated."
- Bjork
(Related: People, Vision)
"The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy."
- Bjork
(Related: People, Comedy, Country, Criticism, English)
"The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs."
- Bjork
(Related: Reason, Songs)
"There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews."
- Bjork
(Related: Spirits)
"There's no map to human behaviour."
- Bjork
"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."
- Bjork
(Related: Love, Life, EnglFirst)
"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."
- Bjork
(Related: Thought, People, Abuse, London)
"I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in."
- Bjork
"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."
- Bjork
(Related: Funny, End, Hippies)
"If nothing else, I have money."
- Bjork
(Related: Money, Nothing)
"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."
- Bjork
(Related: Politics, People, Talk)
"I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl."
- Bjork
(Related: Blood)
"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."
- Bjork
(Related: Selling, Mind, Play)
"I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic."
- Bjork
"I am a grateful... grapefruit."
- Bjork
"I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing."
- Bjork
(Related: Want)
"I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer."
- Bjork
(Related: Love, Being)
"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
(Related: Movies, Energy)
"I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time."
- Bjork
(Related: Time, Discipline, Lying)