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.

When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

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.

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'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

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