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My mum is a big collector of art.
I'm not into having a pedigree dog.
I don't have a daily routine at all.
My parents were very relaxed about music.
I love the conversation between film and music.
When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.
The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.
I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.
It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song because our memories are what make us who we are.
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.
What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.
When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.
Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic,' Sometimes I get annoyed when they say my stuff sounds 'like Satie'. No, it doesn't. At least, I don't think so.
I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope.
I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered the best thing ever, so I had to leave it be for a long time. But now I'm rediscovering it. I'm approaching jazz in a different way.
With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.
I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, which comes across at concerts, where the audience may be quieter. So this means less hecklers, but maybe it also means that people may not be as open about how they felt. I'm not so sure this is especially true of Denmark, but it's what I've heard.
There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music. I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.
On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.