Yago: "Dancer in the Dark" has all this critical acclaim behind it: your Golden Globe nomination, the Grammy Award nomination. You got an Academy Award nomination for Best Song, but do you feel you were snubbed by not getting the proper recognition in the Best Actress category?

Björk: I don't think [so]. When I was nominated, I was actually really surprised. I felt really honored. I guess I've always been really aware of the fact that I come from Iceland, and we have a different culture there.

I went the week before [the Golden Globes ceremony] to Harlem, to see a gospel ceremony in a church. It was so excellent for me, coming from Iceland, being a fly on the wall [watching] everybody having an outer-body experience. Wanting to have the moment, one time in their life, when they'd unite with God; trying hundreds of times. Then a couple would actually walk through that wall, [and there was] an urgency and hunger for that high in the room. Then I [went] to the Golden Globes, and it seemed like the same kind of thing. This is with full respect, because there are fewer more beautiful things than a gospel choir and the people having outer-body experiences in Harlem. I can't imagine many things that are more beautiful. I actually went to Harlem thinking — being sort of a European snob — that it would be an artificial thing, but I was actually really, really touched by it.

[At the Golden Globes,] you would sit there with people — I just did one film, you know? — and these people did films maybe all their lives, sacrificed everything for it. Maybe a group of 10, sitting at a table, and this was the one chance in their life when they could possibly unite with what they believe in — and you can't really point a finger at other peoples' religion; it's not my world at all, and I'm just grateful that I could witness it — and when people won, they completely had an outer-body experience, and when they lost, it was so tragic. Maybe [they were] people who have been trying to do something for 50 years, and that's the one thing they've always wanted. You know, they all wish they were born in that society were their parents were [and] their parents were [and] their parents were. Nobody in my family even knew there was such a thing as "Best Song" or "Best Television Series" or something. Then a week before this happened to me ... this isn't an Iceland thing, you see.

Yago: You're coming in as an outsider.

Björk: For sure. I mean, anything else would be a lie. I could be going to, say, the Olympic finals, and it would be the same thing for me, no disrespect. I mean, all the music things I've been to those loads of times, that's a different box all together — I've got opinions about [those] things. I think, "This guy's a better drummer than this one." But I didn't know anybody [at the Golden Globes], and I think these people are very genuine. They were all in the bathroom kind of preparing, and there were a lot of human feelings going on there. I felt it was very human, and I felt like there was a lot of heart there. When certain people lost and other people won, they were all kind of excellent with each other, and very graceful. There was not one nasty cell in there, or at least I didn't see it. [RealVideo]

Yago: The things that must go on behind closed doors, though.