I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.

When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?

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.

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 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.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.