Morten Harket

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

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Just to be spontaneous and free is life's biggest luxury and privilege when life is so busy.

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My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks' face! We had all these small football cards - literally hundreds of them - and swapping them was the currency back then.

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When we were kids, Stoke was massive in Norway.

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My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.

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I had always wanted to make music on a big scale but never knew how it was going happen - until I saw a band in Oslo called Bridges. I was stunned. They had everything. The only thing they didn't have was me. I knew I needed to join, not for my own sake but for the band's. I knew I was a necessary ingredient.

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I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

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The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.

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People think the chorus is the hard part in 'Take on Me,' but they're wrong. The hard part was making the verses bounce.

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Since I travel so much, my perfect Sunday would start by waking up at home with my partner Inez. We'd have breakfast with our little girl Karmen, maybe in our garden.

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Quotes by Morten Harket