A-ha Quotes
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It's incredible how quickly you fall back into where you left off, one of the good things about being away is to digest things and maybe learn from things and see if there are better ways to get to where you want to be.
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We wanted to come to London because it's the hardest place to make it.
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We were never a boy band. We always had much more to offer than that, I thought.
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If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.
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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.
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You have to remember, videos were on the rise back when we did 'Take On Me.'
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I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings. I grow orchids and collect butterflies. But when it comes to relationships, you have to find the person inside.
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When you're at war with yourself, you will go under.
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Since I travel so much, my perfect Sunday would start by waking up at home with my partner Inez. We'd have breakfast with our little girl Karmen, maybe in our garden.
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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.
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I have always been a recluse really and to bring me out in the open like that is not easy, i think it has a lot of good things to it.
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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.
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I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.
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The pin-up thing took us completely by surprise. I found it hard because I got singled out, and I didn't like it. There was a lot of disillusionment.
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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.
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We became such darlings of a certain type of media. We became a package; we became easy to sell: these three golden nuggets that could pour out all the goods. It was all exposure in an almost violent way.
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I don't abuse my body - I don't drink much alcohol, don't smoke and never have - but that's the same of many people. I don't think I've ever stopped ageing myself.
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For us you have to make peace with that song because it's stronger than you in a way. It's not going away.
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I do respond to the ideas behind the Eurovision and 'The X Factor,' but they're both so limiting and very, very shallow.
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We knew we would make it and become very big.
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We sent a guy called Terry Slater a couple of demos, using the last of our money. And then things turned. He landed us a deal with Warners and said just keep coming up with songs, because when success hits you, you won't even know your name.
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I had always wanted to make music on a big scale but never knew how it was going happen - until I saw a band in Oslo called Bridges. I was stunned. They had everything. The only thing they didn't have was me. I knew I needed to join, not for my own sake but for the band's. I knew I was a necessary ingredient.
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My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks' face! We had all these small football cards - literally hundreds of them - and swapping them was the currency back then.
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We didn't feel we fitted into the '80s.