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.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

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

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

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

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.