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 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.

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'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

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