Quotes by Bjork

• I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
• 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.
• Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
• 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.
• I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
• I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
• I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
• 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.
• Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
• Nature is our chapel.
• Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
• People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
• People that complete other people's vision are understated.
• The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
• The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
• There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
• There's no map to human behaviour.
• 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.
• 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.
• I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
• 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.
• If nothing else, I have money.
• 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.
• I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
• 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.
• I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
• I am a grateful... grapefruit.
• I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.
• I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
• Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
• I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.