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.

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

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

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.

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

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

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.