Björk Quotes

The thing about making [Dancer in the Dark] 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[s] 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 [so] 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.

It's so amazing when people tell me that … electronic music has not got soul. And they blame the computers. They got the finger pointed at the computers like, "There's no soul here." … You can't blame the computer. If there's not soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there. And it's not the tool's fault.

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

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.

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

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

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

I thought I could organize freedom
How Scandinavian of me

You'll be given love You'll be taken care of
You'll be given love
You have to trust it

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

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?

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.

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." Björk 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.

I want to go on a mountaintop
With a radio and good batteries
And play a joyous tune
And free the
Human
Race
From suffering (saccharine)

When in doubt, give.