I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with me. Then I started recording and writing properly. I recorded lots of voices, not just my own. I was interested in people speaking and singing English and trying out words.

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.