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

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.