Norway's a very gender-aware country, and we're very liberal. There are lots of women's voices being heard here compared to many other countries.

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.

If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday “feels, ” you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.

We are made kind by being kind.

Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!

Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

He said my name the way diabetics talked about hot fudge sundaes.

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.

[I like] Die Hard and Paul Verhoeven movies. S - t like that.