I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.