I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.