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 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've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

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

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

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.