Crime Fiction Is A Genre

A Rat Is Neither Good Nor Evil. It Does What A Rat Has To Do.

Ever Since The '70s, Maj Sjowall And Per Wahloo Were The Godfathers Of Scandinavian Crime. They Broke The Crime Novel In Scandinavia From The Kiosks And Into The Serious Bookstores.

I'm Just An Entertainer. In A Way Crime Stories Are Boring. A Crime's Been Committed And At The End You Know It Will Be Solved. So You've Got To Make The Story Interesting Besides It Just Being A Plot. And That's Why Character Matters, Why You've Got To Make The Characters Interesting.

Some Artists See A Gig As An Audience Worshipping Them. I Think It Is About Having A Great Time Together. I Have A Part As The Singer. An Audience Has A Part. Playing A Gig Doesn't Make Me High On Myself.

Until The Eighties, Oslo Was A Rather Boring Town, But It's Changed A Lot, And Is Now Much More Cosmopolitan. If I Go Downtown, I Visit The Harbour To See The Tall Ships And The Ferries, And To Admire The Modern Architecture Such As The Opera House Or The New Astrup Fearnley Museum On The Water's Edge.