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