:: There's no place like home, but if you're an international pop star you've got to find it in the details. Settled in a royal blue chair that could have been custom matched to her smock-like dress and peacock eye makeup, Björk ponders what she calls the "curious mantra" of daily life, and shares a few key ingredients for her home brew: "You open your laptop, you get your emails, you get friends around and cook them a meal. And especially if you make music in the room with your friends, that sort of becomes home." [full]

:: Mr. Herbert listened to an excerpt from the "Pagan Poetry" remix on Mr. Tanaka's site. In the album version, near the song's end, Bjork chants the phrase "I love him" with raw intimacy. Here the passage has been moved to the song's start, and the naked vocal line has been expanded with a harmonizing program. Mr. Herbert said he preferred to respect such a pure expression of emotion. [full]
 
:: I guess 'Hidden Place' is sort of about, um, how two people can create a paradise just by uniting. You've got an emotional location that's mutual. And it's unbreakable. / Björkabout Hidden Place at CDNow [full]
 
:: Brandwein insists that while 'Vespertine' is a very different album for Björk, it's one that her core audience "will love and be excited about." That excitement is spreading across the Internet, something the artist is comfortable with it, Brandwein says. "Björk has no fear of the Internet -- she utilizes it." / Billboard [full]

:: 'Vespertine' is a strange one, because it's so much about that mood you create in your house with your friends and loved ones. It's about hibernation, making hot chocolate, and reading your favorite book. It's not easy to capture this in a big room, which is why I'm looking to play smaller, more intimate venues." / Billboard [full]
 
:: Vespertine was very influenced by my laptop, and about people being obsessed with Napster and saying it compromised sound and me thinking that was rubbish. Alot of the beats were influenced by me thinking someone could download it and it would sound great. / Björk in [Fader] june 2001
  
:: Vespertine is like... those days when it's snowing outside, and you're inside with a cup of cocoa and everything's very magical. You're euphoric, but you don't speak for days 'cause you don't want to. / Björk at mtv.com [full]

:: Björk loves working on the computer herself because ultimately she has such great vision in her head that to translate through anyone else, she's compromised it slightly because she's had to rely on language / Jake Davies at Digidesign [full]

:: Much of Vespertine, which takes its name from vespers, evening prayers, is inspired by chamber music. It's the kind of music, Björk says, that ladies would play in drawing rooms for guests. / Björk in Nylon Mag [full]

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