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

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

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.

I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

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.