Trust your heart, especially when it is a strong one.
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.
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.
There's a great relationship between pop music and the way the body could be seen from the inside - when I was singing or listening to music I would change shape in my head, becoming all kinds of things and people. Music is a way of making your body.
Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.
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.
It feels very different to have long, thick, brightly colored hair. It makes me feel so conflicted to wear, and I believe showing a conflicted person onstage is actually really interesting and emotionally engaging. I'm trying to not just be the person standing on the outside and looking at something, but to actually be it, in a way.
I was always a good housekeeper. Whenever I divorced I always kept the house.
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. . . . 'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it. . . When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.
My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.