Björk on how music saved her: 'I am out of that emergency stage'

Icelandic singer Björk released her latest studio album, 'Vulnicura,' recently and it chronicles her split from long-term boyfriend Matthew Barney.

Now, in a new interview with Rolling Stone, the sensation explained that music was the one thing that truly saved her from what was a really emotionally gruelling experience:

"I can't begin to describe how much better I feel, just physically. Obviously, life is not that black and white. Something will happen to me in five years, and it might come back to life. But I am out of that emergency stage, when you feel like a space alien, just possessed."

The hitmaker went onto liken the break-up to the end of a teenage love affair: "[Writing the album] was a survival mechanism. I thought, all the way to the last day [of the relationship], that everything would be fine. Maybe that's why it was such a shock to me. At first, I was just going to put the songs together and not say anything. But putting the months on - it felt right. It would justify being that full of self-pity. When people listen to these lyrics, I can go, 'It was only two months after the breakup. I was a teenage mess!'"

Watch a trailer for 'Black Lake', which is a new sound and video installation commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, here: