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.

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.

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

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