I get inspiration in many different ways. I can sit by the piano and just start playing a melody, I can get an idea into my head out of...

My favorite genre to write in is actually not instrumental music. It is the genre that Norwegians call “vise.” It is kind of the...

When I am making a new instrumental album, I usually begin with writing down an imagined list of song titles, just a collection of titles...

Some people may think that simplicity in music is a negative thing. That if a melody is simple, it's almost a derogatory term. I don't...

When I'm writing, I often feel that I don't have that much control regarding how «good» the song becomes. To me that is more determined...

Logic in music is a concept I've given a lot of thought to over the years. The feeling that it appears like a melody is «meant to be» a...

In the summer of 1996 I bought 'Songs from a Secret Garden'. I was 16 years old and had not settled on what I wanted to do in life. Upon...