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

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 ….

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 mus….

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..

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

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

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've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself..

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 coo….

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

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 c….

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 demo….

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 enjo….

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 t….

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are ….

I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image..