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

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

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.

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.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

I like to record with people. 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.