Well, I wrote the song about my best friend. We are basicly emotionally married. I was in the middle of Iceland on Christmas, because I had overdosed on people, and I just had to be on my own. I was on my own for about a week, and we only had two hours of daylight. So I was doing very long walks, maybe ten hours a day over there in the ice and the mountains in the dark. I had been away from Iceland, and I was missing it very much. And the person who was keeping me going was my friend. So it's a sort of a love song to my friend but also to Iceland.

I had a very magical moment where I walked for a very long time, and I came on top of a mountain and looked over a quarter of the island from that point. It was very strange weather- the heat had just increased about ten degrees over very few hours from minus to plus Celsius, so all the ice over an incredibly big area was melting. It was crackling like popcorn but echoing, a very strange noise. The clouds were very, very thick and very moist, like a blanket, but very low. And the cities- all my favorite little towns that I had been as a girl- were mirrored in the clouds because they were so full of water. And the light from the light postsin all the cities was orange. Then above the clouds were the Northen Lights. It was just a very magical moment, both visually and emotionally, because this was the quarter of the country I loved so much. And to hear this sort of popcorn sound echoing over all this- it was really gorgeous. The beat in the song "Joga" is trying to be that, while the strings represent the emotion.

-Björk