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

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.

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 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.

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've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.