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.

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.

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.

the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.

Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure.

Chaos isn't good for your health.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

There are very, very few brands that will be brave enough to really, completely take a step back and not to try and control what is considered beautiful.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

The Beatles gave me everything. Especially Paul McCartney. I adore him.