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Updated: 2008-02-21 17:26

Bjork, Volta (2007)

How will the sound of this tour be different from the others and is this a reflection of the direction from your new album?

I've done a few albums done in my house and probably part of it was having a child and breast feeding in between takes -- that maybe it was time for me -- I really want to expand in many ways, both emotionally and also musically and also just literally geographically of going to places.

China is topical in the Western media right now in relation to environmental and political issues. Local musicians in Shanghai such as Zhong Chiaim to get political messages across in their music. Your track "Declare Independence" from your latest album is a very politically driven song. Do you think music can effectively deliver political messages to positive ends?

In Iceland there’s been a lot of talk, like everywhere on the planet, about terrorism and the war in Iraq and all this... Part of it, I find kind of very interesting and the other part of it I find almost close to ridiculous, so I think a lot of it for me is humor. I think this may be one thing that people don't realise about me. There is a lot of self-parody going on. For example with the track "Declare Independence," every time I hear that track, the beginning of it, I just start laughing because it’s just so extreme and there is kind of like a totally "anti-everything" kind of person who is very ... walking with banners and protesting and very green ... and you know, I just find it very comical, these kinds of personalities. But, yeah, I do believe that music can solve things. Probably a bit nave, but I think sometimes it's better just to go out on a Saturday night, have a few drinks, just go and thump your feet for a few hours and you wake up the next day and you have solved a couple of things.

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