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

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'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.