I remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it's a little bit because I'm Norwegian and how I've been brought up.

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 body is the enemy now.

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

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 incredibly discriminating.

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.

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'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 could be.

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 a real apocalypse.

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

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. Everything can be taken away from you.

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 more interesting when I can do that.

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Every night she wrote in that ledger.

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

I really enjoy doing what I do. I enjoy seeing live sport performed at the highest level. What's wonderful about sport is that it involves everybody, everybody has an opinion.

Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.