Creativity Quote by Bjork

Bjork’s genius here is the way she smuggles a manifesto inside a throwaway joke. “I do believe sometimes discipline is very important” arrives dressed like a reasonable, almost parental statement. Then she detonates it with “I’m not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time,” a line that’s deliberately ungainly, rural, and faintly ridiculous. The whiplash matters: she’s refusing the tidy narrative that artists are either mystical savants or irresponsible flakes. She can be rigorous and still be weird about it.

The intent feels defensive and mischievous at once. Bjork has spent her career being framed as otherworldly, instinct-only, a creature of pure feeling. This quip punctures that myth without swapping it for a sterile “actually I’m very professional” press-release version of herself. The “sometimes” is doing work, too: it admits fluctuation, cycles, bursts. Discipline isn’t a moral identity; it’s a tool she picks up when the work demands it.

The subtext is a critique of how audiences police artists, especially women, into either saintly workhorses or unserious eccentrics. By choosing “lazy cow,” she parodies the whole premise of being judged from the outside, turning potential insult into self-authored slapstick. It also nods to her creative process: experimental music isn’t accidental. The chaos is constructed. Even the wildest Bjork moment has scaffolding behind it, and she’s cheekily reminding you that craft can look strange from the outside.