Sondre Lerche

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

'Center Stage' reached people that, as live performers, we would have never had the opportunity to reach.