With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.

You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.