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

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 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.

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