Bjork Gundmundsdottir Quotes

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There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if u forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay

His wicked sense of humour suggests exciting sex His fingers focus on her Her touches He's Venus as a Boy!

I'm back at my cliff still throwing things off I listen to the sounds they make on their way down I follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open?

I want to go, on a mountain top! With a radio and good batteries And play a joyous tune And free the human race from suffering (saccharine)

Emotional landscapes They puzzle me The riddle gets solved and you push me up to this state of emergency How beautiful to be! State of emergency Is where I want to be

I dare you to take me on I dare you to show me your palms I'm so bored of cowards who say they want (love) Then they can't handle love

He offers a handshake, crooked five fingers They form a pattern yet to be matched On the surface simplicity But the darkest pit in me is pagan poetry

You have done Good for yourselves Since you left my wet embrace And crawled ashore . . . My sons and my daughters Ho-oh! Your sweat is salty I am why

'Everyone is bisexual': 'I've always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic. I think everyone's bisexual to some degree or another; it's just a question of whether or not you choose to recognise it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.'

'But: but: these are the people that made the Busby Berkeley movies, yeah? So they're not exactly subtle.'

'I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.'

'It's interesting for me to bring up a girl. You go to the toy store and the female characters there - Cinderella, the lady in Beauty and the Beast - their major task is to find Prince Charming. And I'm like, wait a minute - it's 2005! We've fought so hard to have a say, and not just live through our partners, and yet you're still seeing two-year-old girls with this message pushed at them that the only important thing is to find this amazing dress so that the guy will want you. It's something my mum pointed out to me when I was little - so much that I almost threw up - but she's right.'

'It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc.'

'I was talking to a friend about it recently and I told him that the thing about making that film that upset me most was how cruel Lars is to the woman he is working with. Not that I can't take it, because I'm pretty tough and completely capable of defending myself, but because my ideals of the ultimate creator were shattered. And my friend said 'What did you expect? All major directors are 'sexist', a maker is not necessarily an expert in human rights or female/male equality! My answer was that you can take quite sexist film directors like Woody Allen or Stanley Kubrick and still they are the one that provide the soul to their movies. In Lars von Trier's case it is not so and he knows it. He needs a female to provide his work soul. And he envies them and hates them for it. So he has to destroy them during the filming. And hide the evidence. What saves him as an artist, though, is that he is so painfully honest that even though he will manage to cover up his crime in the 'real' world (he is a genius to set things up that everybody thinks it is just his female-actress-at-the-moment imagination, that she is just hysterical or pre-menstrual), his films become a documentation of this 'soul-robbery'. Breaking the Waves is the clearest example of that. bjork.'

'You know, it's ironic that just at the point the lawyers and the businessmen had calculated how to control music, the internet comes along and fucks everything up.' Bjork gives the finger again, this time waving it into the air. 'God bless the internet,' she adds. And what about you, then? 'I'll still be there, waving a pirate flag.'

'Iceland to me is like a rock in a bowl of water. It may or may not float, sink, or bobble up and down, but it is unaware of its choices. It simply does what it will do.'

'I think it's a mission thing. I think everybody's on a mission. I'm personally on a very, very sort of fast mission. I have to experience 900,000 things just to know that I've tried them all, you know?'

'I don't think the way to deal with the September 11th is to sit down and write a song about it. I think you have to sit down and write a song about something else. Because there are more things in the world than Bush and Bin Laden. Thank God!'

'I have a secret code called 'Icelandic', so you will never know what's written here.'

'Basically the story of Isobel is she was born in a forest by a spark and as she grew up she realized that the pebbles on the floor were actually skyscrapers and by the time she was a grownup woman and the skyscrapers had taken over the forest, she found herself in the city and she didn't like all the people there too much because they were a bit too clever for her, so she decided to send to the world all of these moths that she had trained, to go and fly all over the world and go inside windows of people's houses that were too clever, and they sit on their shoulder and remind them to stop being clever and to start to function by their instinct, and they do that by saying 'na na na na na' to them and then they say 'oh, sorry, I was being all clever there' and they start to function on instinct.'

'Do not fuck with Bjork! Bjork will beat your ass! ... I saw Bjork beat this woman's ass one time in this videotape. She was in the Bangkok airport and she was pushing her luggage cart and this woman came up and just touched her and Bjork went (roaring and hissing). And it was so scary, because you didn't expect it at all, because Bjork is so cute. ... And Bjork called the woman she attacked afterwards to apologize. 'I'm very sorry I tried to pull your eyes up over your head. Somebody must have fed me after midnight.' But Bjork wore the best dress ever to the Oscars, ever. She wore a swan. And I'm not talking about a dress with white feathers on it. Oh, no. She rocked the whole bird. The beak was up here and shit. And she accessorized it with an egg -- what else you gon' wear with your bird?! And all of the fashion magazines said she was the worst dressed, but when they say you're the worst, that means you're the best.'

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