Quotes from Bjork

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.

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

Nature is our chapel.

I'm a whisper in water.

Emotions weren't created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I've got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don't eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.

It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.

You show me continents, I see the islands, You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is enlightmentment

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

On the surface simplicity But the darkest pit in me It's Pagan poetry Pagan poetry

I thought I could organise freedom. How Scandinavian of me.

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

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.

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It's common, it's in our nature as animals, like the birds of paradise who've got the best feathers and that sort of stuff. But it's fun when it's impulsive and it's about fun.