Quotes from 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.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.

There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.

I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.

I went through an anti-Establishment phase and thought we should get everything for free.

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. 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.

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

Nature is our chapel.

I never really understood the word 'loneliness'. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

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.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

I think connecting natural elements and musicology is probably pretty idiosyncratic of me, so it is hard to imagine anyone else going down that route.

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.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.