I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.
I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.
Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going to be as much artifice when it comes out as a piece of music. Everything is in character in a way. But that's a great thing.
Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.
I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.
I remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it's a little bit because I'm Norwegian and how I've been brought up.
Norway's a very gender-aware country, and we're very liberal. There are lots of women's voices being heard here compared to many other countries.
I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.
It feels very different to have long, thick, brightly colored hair. It makes me feel so conflicted to wear, and I believe showing a conflicted person onstage is actually really interesting and emotionally engaging. I'm trying to not just be the person standing on the outside and looking at something, but to actually be it, in a way.
I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.
