Quotes

“To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.” Matthew McConaughey

“Without exercise, I don't feel like my head works right.” Matthew McConaughey

“I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, 'Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?' You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.” Matthew McConaughey

“There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.” Matthew McConaughey

“A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.” Matthew McConaughey

“I've got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I've got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.” Matthew McConaughey

“Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.” Bjork

“Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.” Bjork

“With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.” Bjork

“I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.” Bjork

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

“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.” Bjork

“A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.” Bjork

“Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.” Bjork

“I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.” Bjork

“Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.” Bjork

“The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.” Bjork

“I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.” Bjork

“Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.” Bjork

“Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.” Bjork

“There's no map to human behaviour.” Bjork

“I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.” Bjork

“I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.” Bjork

“I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.” Bjork

“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.” Bjork

“I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.” Bjork

“There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.” Bjork

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

“Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.” Bjork

“The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.” Bjork