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.

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.

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.

Where there is love, things roll.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

There is no substitute for hard work.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

No I'm not lucky, I'm blessed YES

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.