I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

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

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 records that are what you feel.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Now things on TV are every bit as good or better than what you find in movie theatres.

It's is always nice to be respected as a footballer. I am going to go out and enjoy the game and if I can set one or two goals up then so be it - I would love to.

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

You don't have to show people how successful you are.

Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.

If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.