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.

On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

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'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 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.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

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?