Her feet are shod with a pair of football boots, complete with the full compliment of studs.
I got them during the World Cup. I went out to get some for my kid and I bought some for myself as well. Both of us got obsessed with the World Cup. To be honest, I think I tell more for the whole emotion of the thing, people crying and everything. I was just watching it as a human experience. I love to see people going mad like that. They went mad in Ireland too, didn’t they ? I love that. It’s incredible. My kid is in Iceland now with his dad, on holiday, and I’m sure he’s playing football. He became a football fan this Summer so we watched all of the World Cup together. He watched the football and I watched the humans.
Juergen Teller : The last time we spoke, you were practicing karate. Are you still doing it ?
Björk : I’m doing kung fu at the moment.
Juergen Teller : What’s the difference ?
Björk : For me the distinction between martial arts isn’t so much the style as it is in the teacher. Maybe that’s because I always pick up on the emotional side of things. But I’d say kung fu is similar to dancing. It’s very flowing, with soft, filigreed, gorgeous movements. When sixty people are in the room, all doing it, kung fu feels almost like ballroom dancing. Whereas karate is very brutal and explosive-in a good way.
Juergen Teller : You once mentioned to me that you and Thom Yorke decided that you both hated yoga and meditation. What was that all about ?
Björk : [laughs] Well, I’d always resisted meditation with a full-on defense mechanism, but I’d never understood why. I wouldn’t meditate-no way, ever,-and Thom felt the same way. He got angry just talking about it. We ended up laughing about the whole thing, but we figured that singing is a form of meditation, where you kind of go to an imaginary place that you’ve built over many years. It’s like a state of trance. So to go to a meditation class where somebody tells you, "Do this, feel this" like they’ve got an instruction manual on how to get to this place - it’s offensive. It’s like reading a sex guide before you are with the one you love, and then asking whether they wouldn’t mind moving their thigh, like, twenty centimeters to the left-and then measuring it with a stick.
Juergen Teller : Right, right.?
Björk : Everybody has a different method of getting to that place, because everybody needs it. Some people play golf, some people get drunk-one method isn’t better than another. But if I ever sat down and listened to a guru tell me how to meditate, I would feel like I was having an affair. I would feel disloyal to my own temple.
