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 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.

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

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