Björk cytaty

„Muzyka to moja świątynia, moja religia.”

„Mówiąc, że wszystkie piosenki zostały już napisane, to jakbyśmy mówili, że wszystkie dzieci zostały już urodzone, i twierdzili, że to niemożliwe, by spłodzić dziecko, którego jeszcze nigdy nie było. Myślę, że powinniśmy zdać się na matkę naturę. Natura sama zadba o różnorodność.”

„A czy nie jest to jakaś forma religijności? Raczej trzymam się od tych rzeczy z daleka.”

„Dawno już przestałam tłumaczyć znaczenie moich piosenek. Wolę, kiedy robią to za mnie inni. Ja chętniej przebieram pomidory.”

„Taki musical chciałam zrobić od dziecka – prawdziwy, bez magicznych hollywoodzkich sztuczek!”

„Moja słabość polega na tym, że lubię pracować!”

„Religia jest nużąca.”

„W końcu nie trzeba spędzić 10 lat w Oksfordzie, żeby być poetą!”

“"Everyone is bisexual’: “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.””

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

“Declare independence
Don't let them do that to you
…
Start your own currency
Make your own stamp
Protect your language”

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

“If travel is searching
And home what's been found
I'm not stopping

I'm going hunting
I'm the hunter
I'll bring back the goods
But I don't know when”

“When in doubt, give.”

“He offers a handshake, crooked five fingers
They form a pattern yet to be matched
On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me is pagan poetry”

“I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl
...
leave me now return tonight
tide will show you the way
if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay”

“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.”

“I want to go, on a mountain top!
With a radio and good batteries
And play a joyous tune
And free the
human
race
from suffering”

“Emotional landscapes
They puzzle me
The riddle gets solved and you push me up to this state of emergency
How beautiful to be!
State of emergency
Is where I want to be”

“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?”

“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”

“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”

“I was talking to a friend about it recently and I told him that the thing about making that film 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 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 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.”

“It's interesting for me to bring up a girl. You go to the toy store and the female characters there — Cinderella, the lady in Beauty and the Beast — their major task is to find Prince Charming. And I'm like, wait a minute — it's 2005! We've fought so hard to have a say, and not just live through our partners, and yet you're still seeing two-year-old girls with this message pushed at them that the only important thing is to find this amazing dress so that the guy will want you. It's something my mum pointed out to me when I was little — so much that I almost threw up — but she's right.”

“I thought I could organize freedom
How Scandinavian of me”

“There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour
...
There's no map
And a compass
Wouldn't help at all”

“I am grateful… grapefruit.”

“Hope is a muscle that allows us to connect.”