Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying. ” “I never lie,” I lie.
I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.
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.
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.
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.
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.
Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.