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… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty… — Jenny Hval Copy Share
I'm very interested in the visual world because I'm also very interested in feminism. I find that the world of watching takes us into… — Jenny Hval Copy Share
I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen. — Jenny Hval Copy Share
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… — Jenny Hval Copy Share
Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that… — Jenny Hval Copy Share
I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller. — Jenny Hval Copy Share
I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever… — Jenny Hval Copy Share
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… — Jenny Hval Copy Share
Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really… — Jenny Hval Copy Share
I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different… — Jenny Hval Copy Share
I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with me. Then… — Jenny Hval Copy Share
I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films. — Jenny Hval Copy Share
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… — Jenny Hval Copy Share
I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape. — Jenny Hval Copy Share
