“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.” PeopleWayKindBodyListeningBecomingShapesMusic IsSingingPopsYour BodyAll KindsListening To MusicPop MusicGreat Relationship Author:Jenny Hval
“Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going to be as much artifice when it comes out as a piece of music. Everything is in character in a way. But that's a great thing.” IfsWayWritingEndsMatterCharacterPiecesGreat ThingsArtifice Author:Jenny Hval
“I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.” WorldWayTryingSeemsReadingNormalSilentEnlightening Author:Jenny Hval
“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.” WayFeelsTryingBelievePersonsLongDifferentI BelieveInterestingHairStandingThickEngagingReally InterestingRed Hair Author:Jenny Hval
“On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.” PeopleWayWantLevelsEmotionalGuides Author:Jenny Hval
“When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingArtistStuffMusicianPopsPop MusicProvocative Author:Jenny Hval
“I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.” WayFeelsMatterBodyAudienceRocksStageSingingTypical Author:Jenny Hval
“I remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it's a little bit because I'm Norwegian and how I've been brought up.” WayLittlesRememberYoungBitsLittle BitGenderNorwegians Author:Jenny Hval
“I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.” WayKindDifferentTogetherVoiceLaughingCryTypeSingingVariousObsessedTiedPhasesAccents Author:Jenny Hval
“I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.” WayTryingI CanIdeasCan DoInterestingEmotionStatementsAbstract Author:Jenny Hval
