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

I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

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

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 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 went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.