History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.