Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
Bjork
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 a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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.
There's no map to human behaviour.
I am a grateful... grapefruit.
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
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 think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.
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.
Nature is our chapel.
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.
I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.
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.
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.
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.
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.
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.
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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.
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.
In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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.
We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.
I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.
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.
I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
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.
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 mostly write on my own, walking, outside.
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
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.
With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.
There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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 find most children quite inspiring.
I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.
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 get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
