Björk: 'In Iceland we don’t go to church, we go for a walk and sing at the top of our lungs’
'There’s a sacredness that comes with this landscape'
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Your support makes all the difference.Björk has shared her simple and beautiful method for clearing her head and establishing some sense of meaning, which sees her shunning attending church for simply going for a walk in an Icelandic tundra.
Perhaps the island’s most famous native, the singer talked to The Guardian about her formative years in a new interview.
“I was brought up in the suburbs of Reykjavík,” she said. “I lived next to the last block of flats, and then it was moss and tundra. I used to walk a lot on my own and sing at the top of my lungs. I think a lot of Icelandic people do this.
“You don’t go to church or a psychotherapist – you go for a walk and feel better.”
Iceland is full of vast, barren spaces where few humans dwell, and Björk would draw peace and inspiration from this.
“When I was a teenager I used to hitchhike,” she recalled, “and camp, and spend a few days on my own each year. The first money I got, when I was 13, I used to buy a tent.
“It was my ideal freedom. And I don’t think I’m alone in that ideal. There’s a sacredness that comes with this landscape."
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