"On 'Hope' Timbaland did a beat, and I sang on top, and then I took his beat and layered it and chopped it so it's way more chaotic than how he did it, where the bass drum is doing an irregular stereo thing. And then afterwards I wrote a bassline and took it to Toumani Diabaté who played kora over it. So it became not so much a Björk /Timbaland thing, it sort of took on its own life a little bit." "We played it at (British outdoor festival) Glastonbury with (African kora player) Toumani Diabate, and it was incredible.

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