Bjork

Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

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.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

In 1954, Guatemala's deposed president, the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, was forced to strip down to his underwear and photographed before being allowed to leave the country.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.