I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.

- Bent Saether

It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have developed…

- Bent Saether

When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know when you're on a roll and you learn how …

- Bent Saether

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

- Bent Saether

Where Snah [Hans Magnus Ryan] is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I am much better than him in certain fields, …

- Bent Saether

Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

- Bent Saether

We've known each other [in Motorpsycho ] since 1985 or '86, are really different as personalities, and yet have actually never disagreed to any degre…

- Bent Saether

A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained…

- Bent Saether

You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as …

- Bent Saether