Bjork explains decision to leave UK

Bjork has revealed that she left the UK because fame was stunting her creativity.

The 'Earth Intruders' star recorded her breakthrough album Debut while she was living in London, but moved back to her native Iceland in 1996 after the LP become a multi-platinum smash.

She told The List: "I was living in England and I was offered the chance to be an A-lister. Normally I spend a lot of my time solitaire. It just felt a bit weird, because I have to be able to write music, and when I walk down the street I have this music going on in my head.

"That's my life, and it felt like a thousand people had moved in there and they were leaving their dirty socks around, so I couldn't write music."