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

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

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.

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 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 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.