Bjork

“I find most children quite inspiring.”

“There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.”

“I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.”

“With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.”

“I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.”

“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.”

“Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.”

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

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

“I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.”

“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.”

“When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage.”

“Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.”

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

“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.”

“In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.”

“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.”

“All is full of love”

“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.”