For Many Years, It Seemed As If

Everyone Has A Need To Do Penance. It's A Basic Need, Like Washing. It's About Harmony, An Absolutely Essential Inner Balance. It's The Balance We Call Morality.

. We Have This Attitude That People Become Drug Addicts Against Their Will. That They Couldn’t Possibly Want This Kind Of Life. But Maybe That’s Not True. Maybe They Don’t Want To Live Like Other People — It Just Wouldn’t Suit Them.

At Nineteen I Was Pretty Sure I Was Going To Be A Professional Soccer Player. At That Time I Played For One Of The Norwegian Premier Leagues. But I Tore Ligaments In Both Knees, So I Started Studying Business Administration And Economics And Became A Financial Analyst, And I Worked At A Brokerage Firm As A Stockbroker.

I Don't Have Any Writing Routine. Sometimes I Go To My Local Coffee Shop And I Write There For Some Hours. Apart From That, I Am Traveling Most Of The Time. I Write In Airports, Trains, Hotel Rooms... I Can Write Anywhere.

Phantom' Was For Me An Interesting Technique Of Telling The Story. You Have One Voice That It Is In The Present Telling What Is Happening, And Then There's One Voice From The Past That's Also Driving The Story Forward. And You Know That The Two Story Lines Will Meet Eventually.