When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then ….

I'm very interested in the visual world because I'm also very interested in feminism. I find that the world of watching takes us into the most psycho….

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual..

I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to….

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though..

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller..

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual w….

I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's end….

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability..

Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live..

Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How muc….

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape..

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show..

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are ….

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually inc….

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The bo….

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's mor….

I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with me. Then I started recording and writing ….

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I cou….

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life.….

It feels very different to have long, thick, brightly colored hair. It makes me feel so conflicted to wear, and I believe showing a conflicted person….