Latest Jenny Hval Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Jenny Hval

  Ideas, Interesting, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Art, Reading, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Jenny Hval

  Girl, World, Language

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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 the most psychotic state of, like, "You are this one person, but you have to become another person to see these images."

  Jenny Hval

  Feminism, World, Like You

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

  Jenny Hval

  Dream, Thinking, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.

  Jenny Hval

  Voice, Paris, Interest

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Thinking, Film, Made

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Jenny Hval

  Voice, Laughing, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

  Jenny Hval

  Memories, Stupid, Reality

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Girl, Australia, Invisible

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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 I started recording and writing properly. I recorded lots of voices, not just my own. I was interested in people speaking and singing English and trying out words.

  Jenny Hval

  Writing, Guitar, Voice

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Norway's a very gender-aware country, and we're very liberal. There are lots of women's voices being heard here compared to many other countries.

  Jenny Hval

  Country, Voice, Norway

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Jenny Hval

  Littles, Way, Remember

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Stuff, Abstract, Back And Forth

  Source: pitchfork.com

• When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

  Jenny Hval

  Genre, Vulnerability

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Jenny Hval

  Rocks, Singing, Typical

  Source: pitchfork.com

• On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

  Jenny Hval

  Emotional, People, Levels

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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?

  Jenny Hval

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Jenny Hval

  Voice, Focus, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

  Communication, People, Giving

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.

  Jenny Hval

  Fighting, Thinking, Practice

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

• 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.

  Jenny Hval

  Believe, Hair, Long

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

• I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

  Jenny Hval

  Listening, Alternatives, Alternative Music

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

• When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.

  Jenny Hval

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Keys

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

• 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.

  Jenny Hval

  Reading, Trying, World

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.