acting vs music

The fact that the film [Dancer In The Dark] was so brutal and full of big emotional strokes made me want to do little pretty things even more, she says of the link between the movie and Verspertine. Kind of do an album that you can come home to after a really tough day at work, and put it on, and it’s gentle and sweet and nourishing and lullabies and prayers, and you go to bed and you wake up with a smile.

Q Magazine, July 2001