A-ha Quotes
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm attracted to people who are older rather than younger, and all ages have their potential and limitations.
-
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.
-
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.
-
We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.
-
We make music that we believe in. That's all it is.
-
When we were kids, Stoke was massive in Norway.
-
The record company didn't know what we looked like at first. They were all excited about our tapes.
-
I never liked the term 'fans.'
-
If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.
-
I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.
-
People think the chorus is the hard part in 'Take on Me,' but they're wrong. The hard part was making the verses bounce.
-
I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.
-
If I didn't travel so much, maybe my perfect Sunday would be skin diving on a coral reef - not scuba diving, as skin diving is more physical, and I prefer the lightness of it. Skin diving means wearing just goggles. Oh, I could wear some trunks, maybe.
-
Fun is only possible if you have a mindset that allows it.
-
We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.
-
Just to be spontaneous and free is life's biggest luxury and privilege when life is so busy.
-
I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.
-
Although I would like to describe the perfect day, I can't. Because a perfect day is one where there is no plan.
-
Anything can be interesting as long as you access it from the right angle.
-
We've never been very good at servicing fans. I'm here to concentrate on music, not to be a pen pal to people who write to me.
-
My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.
-
I've never been uncomfortable being a frontman.