Bjork
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.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Politics
If nothing else, I have money.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Politics
Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.Collection: Nature
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Relationship
I am a grateful... grapefruit.
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
Nature is our chapel.
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.
I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
There's no map to human behaviour.
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.
I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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 get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
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.
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.
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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.
I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.
Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.
There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
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.
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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'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.
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.
A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
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.
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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.
I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.
I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.
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.
I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.
It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.
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.
The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
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.
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.
What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.