Björk

‘I think that songs is several things. At the time, I was going to move to London for a couple of months to record an album. I ended up doing two records and touring the world. I'd never been so long away from Iceland, so when I started preparing for Homogenic, it was very obviously supposed to be a love album to Iceland nature. I'd learned enough about studios and beats to make modern Icelandic pop music. It's isn't Icelandic music trying to be English or American. I was doing a lot of experimenting with beats trying to make them sound volcanic. With this song, I really had a sort of National Anthem in mind. Not the National Anthem but certain classic Icelandic songs -very romantic, very proud. All the puffin stories are rubbish,...’ - Interview with Record Collector #279, 2002 ‘joga is written to my best friend jóga i went to a cabin in midwinter alone for a week my father dropped me there and i was hiking in the snow and i remember especially an epic night with northern lights above ingólfsfjall low clouds below them and the towns mirroring in them at the bottom of the horizon. this was probably the bravest yet i had gone with an arrangement at that point playing the melodies of the first violin and violas with clumsy fingers on the piano. it probably took me a year until i found the right words for the chorus : state of emergency ... i was walking down a hill in southern spain around midnight, singing the chorus again and again trying to figure out what would match those vowels and match the emotional intention jóga...’ - björk- score stories 2021 ‘Like I tried to write that tune but, I mean, I just wanted mainly to write lyrics. It was just pathetic. I was like "her... her..." it was like "love... love..." I couldn't even put it into words. So, you know, it's -- yeah, it's probably the -- I think it's the fiercest love song I have written, I think.’ - Interview with Sook-Yin Lee, 1998