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.

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

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 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.

For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.

Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.

You’re white. You’re straight. You’re well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you.

People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

I can conquer the world with one hand, as long as you are holding the other.

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.