Top 60 Björk Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Björk

2. “I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!”

— Björk

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

— Björk

4. “There’s more to Life than this.”

— Björk

5. “You shouldn’t let poets lie to you.”

— Björk

6. “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.”

— Björk

7. “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.”

— Björk

8. “I’m a whisper in water.”

— Björk

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

— Björk

10. “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.”

— Björk

11. “If I had a philosophy, it’s that I support the beautiful side of anarchy.”

— Björk

12. “Create a paradise anywhere you go.”

— Björk

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

— Björk

14. “If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.”

— Björk

15. “I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.”

— Björk

16. “I’m a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.”

— Björk

17. “Love is a two way dream.”

— Björk

18. “I’m going to prove the impossible really exists.”

— Björk

19. “If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.”

— Björk

20. “It’s invisible, what women do. It’s not rewarded as much.”

— Björk

21. “Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!”

— Björk

22. “People are always going to need physicality; they’re going to want to meet other people even more. I’ve got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won’t forget about them.”

— Björk

23. “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.”

— Björk

24. “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 flavors.”

— Björk

25. “People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.”

— Björk

26. “I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.”

— Björk

27. “You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.”

— Björk

28. “Americans are so dumb!”

— Björk

29. “I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.”

— Björk

30. “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.”

— Björk

31. “Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would’ve gotten an album deal.”

— Björk

32. “Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There’s a lot of music, always.”

— Björk

33. “I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don’t want to kill the mystery.”

— Björk

34. “I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.”

— Björk

35. “When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.”

— Björk

36. “I definitely can feel the third or fourth feminist wave in the air, so maybe this is a good time to open that Pandora’s box a little bit and air it out.”

— Björk

37. “I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.”

— Björk

38. “Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I’d rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.”

— Björk

39. “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.”

— Björk

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40. “Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.”

— Björk

41. “Believe it or not, I’m a bit clumsy with technology. It’s probably why I’m so excited about the touchscreen – even an idiot can use it!”

— Björk

42. “People that complete other people’s vision are understated.”

— Björk

43. “If nothing else, I have money.”

— Björk

44. “How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.”

— Björk

45. “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.”

— Björk

46. “It’s a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don’t have to analyze. That’s usually a good sign within creative work.”

— Björk

47. “Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.”

— Björk

48. “I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.”

— Björk

49. “I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.”

— Björk

50. “Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.”

— Björk