I went through various phases ...

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

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Very devoted religious people are so extroverted, but at the same time, they're so repressed sexually and so conservative. I've never been able to understand that combination, but I'm fascinated by it.
 Jenny Hval
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
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
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
The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty or not pretty. The shape of it is boring.
 Jenny Hval