Varg Vikernes Quotes

Your limitations create your sound.

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.

Only one music comes out of me.

I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

Talent is talent, but fashion is separate, and it shouldn't be used to judge me as a singer.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

I don't think anybody really super-consciously tries to develop a style to play.

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.

Just understand that the type of music that I make is something special.

Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.

I don't really class myself as a musician, I can make music but I'm not the greatest technically. There were other people who were technically better than me in school but I knew how I wanted to sound and all I needed was to work out how to do it.

I think my music covers a broader sound than just 'Tropical House'... My goal is to simply be a great producer in my own right without being pigeonholed.

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to find my own style, both in terms of fashion and music.

We were never a boy band. We always had much more to offer than that, I thought.

One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be bubbly. That's what people expected from us. But that was very limiting.

I can't really describe my sound.

Not everybody loves the way I play.

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.