Bjork, celebrating the release of her latest album Utopia, has been discussing how much her life and career has evolved over time.

The Icelandic musician, who also revealed her top five current artists, openly discussed the rumoured recording sessions with American hip hop icons Wu-Tang Clan.

Bjork was reminiscing backk to the time Homogenic was released 20-years-ago, explaining how she teamed up with Wu Tang to write a couple of tracks that never surfaced: “We wrote a couple of songs together,” she said in a new interview with Fact. “And I just felt… sometimes when you do things and you don’t plan them it’s magic,” she added.

“I really think what we made was magic,” she continued. “But I think because it wasn’t part of the whole Homogenic thing and it wasn’t part of what Wu-Tang were doing at the time, it was better as an idea, if that makes any sense?”

Here’s some more background from the interview:

I wanted these kinda Icelandic, volcanic beats, and I was kind of struggling with it. I had done beats on my albums, but it takes me a long time to make them. And sometimes I get impatient and I want other people to do it, so I sit there and describe to them what I want them to do. So, I was in Spain, and Wu-Tang Clan were supposed to come to Spain. RZA was supposed to come. But then months passed. Then the album got finished and I delivered it. Then RZA was like, “I’m ready! Shall I come to Spain?”

Instead, I went to New York. We wrote a couple of songs together. And I just felt… sometimes when you do things and you don’t plan them it’s magic. And I really think what we made was magic. But I think because it wasn’t part of the whole Homogenic thing and it wasn’t part of what Wu-Tang were doing at the time, it was better as an idea, if that makes any sense?

We met a few times though – my favourite moment was when I did an in-store at Tower Records. I’d never done anything like that before. I turned up – and seven of the Wu-Tang Clan turned up to, like, protect me! I was signing books for an hour, and they sent some of their team, standing there with me. That was one of my all-time favourite moments: I had been on my own, so when they turned up I felt very protected. It was magic. In my eyes, they’re punk. We are definitely [similar] – we do things in, like, a ritual way. The good thing was that I got to hang out with them. I got to see Wu-Tang’s version of New York. Which was pretty cool. A very specific angle on that city that I feel very blessed to have experienced.

Read the full interview with Fact, here.