Jenny Hval famous quotes

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

#Body #Shapes #Boring

It feels very different to have long, thick, brightly colored hair. It makes me feel so conflicted to wear, and I believe showing a conflicted person onstage is actually really interesting and emotionally engaging. I'm trying to not just be the person standing on the outside and looking at something, but to actually be it, in a way.
-- Jenny Hval

#Believe #Hair #Long

When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.
-- Jenny Hval

#Beautiful #Growing Up #Keys

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.
-- Jenny Hval

#Listening #Alternatives #Alternative Music

Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.
-- Jenny Hval

#Needs #Stuff #Revolution

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.
-- Jenny Hval

#Reading #Trying #World

I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's ended can reverse any good results that have come from it.
-- Jenny Hval

#Thinking #People #Battle

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.
-- Jenny Hval

#Believe #Taken #Mean

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.
-- Jenny Hval

#Healthy #Enemy #Important

Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going to be as much artifice when it comes out as a piece of music. Everything is in character in a way. But that's a great thing.
-- Jenny Hval

#Writing #Character #Pieces

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

#Religious #People #Able

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.
-- Jenny Hval

#Real #Weakness #Apocalypse

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.
-- Jenny Hval

#Individual #Breakdown #Capitalist

There's a great relationship between pop music and the way the body could be seen from the inside - when I was singing or listening to music I would change shape in my head, becoming all kinds of things and people. Music is a way of making your body.
-- Jenny Hval

#People #Listening #Singing

Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.
-- Jenny Hval

#Fighting #Thinking #Practice