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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 was around me.

Jenny Hval

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Jenny Hval
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: July 11
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I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.
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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.
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I disagree very strongly with people saying that battle is over. If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's ended can reverse any good results that have come from it.
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Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.
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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 healthy. The body is the enemy now.
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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.
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I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.
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I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.
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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 are a real apocalypse.
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I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.
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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.
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On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.
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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.
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