I think after Iceland's independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I'm second generation. My parents were born in 1945-46. Our movement at the punk times was like, we can sing in Icelandic, we are strong.

Bjork

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If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

happened want mistake

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

ocean loneliness sky

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, an... by Bjork

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

evening wake-up morning

Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.

god believe thinking

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.

would-be people thinking

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

music soul people

If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of... by Bjork

If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.

support beautiful philosophy

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around. by Bjork

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

It takes a long time to fully become who you are. by Bjork

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

long-time who-you-are long

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

movie understanding book

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

want fall thinking

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the cr... by Bjork

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

wake-up cracks broken

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

eggs sorry football

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.

tunes done song

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

discipline believe lying

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.

bisexual powerful men

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stoppi... by Bjork

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

stopping hunting home

Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don’t eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.

how-you-feel emotion lying

Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me. by Bjork

Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me.

Nature is our chapel. by Bjork

Nature is our chapel.