Norway Quotes

When you are young in this industry, it's difficult to know when to speak up.
When you're surrounded by majestic Norwegian nature, it's very easy to start thinking about stuff you don't have time to in everyday life.
Whenever my friend says something cool, and especially if my team says something, like a cool line in English, I'll write it down, and maybe I'll rephrase or use in a different way or something.
Writing songs about having a nice time - 'Oh I'm so happy on tour with my band' - I'd find it really difficult to write a good song about it.
You don't know how long it's going to last. I don't know what's going to happen after I put out my first album.
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.
I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.
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 have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.
I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.
I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.
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 work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.
I'm a big Bond fan.
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.
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.
Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.
There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.
When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.
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