Bjork

I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

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.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

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 always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.

The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.

I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

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.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

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.

I find most children quite inspiring.

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.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.

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.

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.

Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.