I fell in love with pop music when I was seven. It was the girl power message from my favorite band growing up; Spice Girls (and still a favorite) that made me pursue music full time."Youth Against Fascism" was what inspired my political awakening and it really did spark something in me and I just instantly connected. When you become a teenager, everything gets turned upside down. Your head is just exploding. There were the first band I fell in love with when I became a teenager; the first band to kind of show me that way.. They were my teenage soundtrack and Black Flag, S** Pistols, The Clash and all the grunge stuff of course, like Smashing Pumpkins.

I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable. When I was 18, we formed an electro-pop punk band Mor, travelling across Europe and I was also in all these left wing organizations. It was very, very political, very, very "F** society". We played all kinds of squats, weird places, everywhere. It was so much fun. We would take over houses that were empty and demonstrated and got drunk and threw parties in my parents house...It was a lot of fun and I think that's also why I'm so inspired by the teen years when I write music, because everything's so f*** crazy and amazing and so intense. You don't understand anything going on around you with all these changes in your body and in your mind but at the same time you have all these first time experiences like love and you're just so free and no strings.

The changing point of my career was turning from punk to pop. In Odense, Denmark the punk environment and the hip hop environment were very close and connected. When I was in my 19 and 20s, me and my girlfriends started hanging around with these graffiti boys and skaters who listened to very cool hip-hop. I thought they we so cool and even started dating one of them. He knew everything about music and he gave me all this hip hop stuff. and heavy electronic music. I just fell in love, deep and hard with that music: J Dilla, MF Doom, Wu Tang.

But, I still love punk. I still am a society critic, I just didn't play in squats anymore. In Denmark, they have a more socialist political system which means you get money for studying, you get money of you're sick and you get money even if you can't find work. Of course it's a good thing that people get help but there's always a dark side of the moon because people tend to exploit these things. What happens, is lifestyle diseases -depression, laziness and this suffocating fog of stagnation that the young people can't seem to shake off. They have all these opportunities and everyone will just throw
money ahead of them. I think it's important that people have something to fight for and I think we all need a passion and fire that keeps us going. It's like being spoon-fed yet starved.

Once, I was visiting some of my old friends and we had a night that I like to describe as the "f**-it-all" high of being young. I was almost waking up in the afternoon, when I dreamt the chorus. I woke up and just ran to the piano. I'm only 25 years old and I'm still living out my youth. MØ is the danish word for "maiden" which really fits in my lyrical universe. I wanted it because its the idea of a pure and unspoiled girl so it was ironic too. A lot of my songs are about growing up and entering all this chaos but in a way, you always want to retain the purity inside you.We don't have any guidelines to life, And we kinds of have to find ourselves in all this chaos with a society that settles for less and doesn't encourage you. With my music, I wanna say, 'Hey man, life is f*** hard but we can do it together.'

I'd have to say my favorite song is Pilgrim. That song is just about being yourself. It's giving the finger to our society which is so hysteric sometimes. I know it's a bit cliche now but I really think it's true. You gotta do your own thing, pave and walk your own road and just f** of from everything. Don'get me wrong, I like living in the big city but sometimes you really just need to get away from all that superficial stuff. Just sit under a starry sky and experience how insignificant you really are.

I don't know if I've changed that much since I was 20 but I do love my new life. I think expressing my identity and communicated with my community through music is my way of life.  A lot of my fans comment on how I don't put up an act or cover like Lady Gaga.  Some people say that I should but I think it's so important that you are yourself. I wouldn't even be able to hold up the masquerade. It would crack and show. I also think it's very important that when it comes to meeting fans that you're just being yourself. That really helps connect with them and you just meet a whole new world and really feel like you're influencing people.