A biography for Bjorkhasn’t been written yet.
“When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.”
“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.”
“In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.”
“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.”
“In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.”
“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'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 get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.”
“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.”
“As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.”
“Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.”
“I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.”
“If nothing else, I have money.”
“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.”
“I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.”