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“I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.”
“Anything can be interesting as long as you access it from the right angle.”
“I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.”
“A-ha is not me, Paul, or Magne: it is its own individual that has its own identity and characteristics. It is a result of a particular meeting point between the three of us.”
“You can love someone and not like them.”
“We wanted to come to London because it's the hardest place to make it.”
“We had a large spell in 1985-86, but we would have had to move to the States and be available all the time, so we chose to remain a European act.”
“הקלטתי אלבום בנורווגיה ואז נסעתי לצלם קצת בסביבות ירושלים, אז הייתי שם כמה ימים. מה שנשאר איתי זה מצבור עשיר של רשמים, כי הייתי גם בצד הפלסטיני וגם בצד הישראלי.”
“כשאתה במלחמה עם עצמך, אתה תיפול.”
“אף פעם לא אהבתי את המונח 'מעריצים'.”
“אנחנו יוצרים מוזיקה שאנחנו מאמינים בה. זה כל מה שזה.”
“תפסו אותנו כתינוק של תעשיית המוזיקה, שלושה בחורים שנראים טוב ששמו אותם ביחד כדי להרוויח כסף לתעשייה. וזה אף פעם לא היה ככה. אנחנו שלושה אגוזים קשים." ~ על להקת "א-הא”
“אני יכול לבחור להיות מוזיקאי רציני, אבל החלק של סמל המין לא תלוי בי.”
“We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by the success that the first record gave us.”
“If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.”
“Mind you, the limelight exists anywhere in the world. When you're not in the U.K., it can be as active somewhere else in the world, and for me, that's more or less been the case, so I never dropped out of the limelight in that sense.”
“I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.”
“I grew up in a small mountain town in Norway, and I remember miming to the Beatles on the couch when I was about six, singing into a broomstick, but this was a country that only had one radio station. There was no music around, really.”
“What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.”
“We had to leave Norway and go where it was all happening, which was London. We loved it there, but it was hard. We had no money - we were literally starving. It started to get ugly.”