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

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.

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

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 try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

Tessa is gone, and every moment she is gone is a knife ripping me apart from the inside.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

I'm not a very serious Jew. I don't wear the protective religious headgear. They only wear that because 40% of all religious thoughts escape through the head.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

Today, I bought a pastrami sandwich: $13.75. Walked back out in the street - genuine Rolex watch: six bucks.