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

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