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 remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it's a little bit because I'm Norwegian and how I've been brought up.

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 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.

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

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.