56 Quotes by Morten Harket

You have to remember, videos were on the rise back when we did 'Take On Me.'

We had a large spell in 1985-86, but we would have had to move to the States and be available all the time, so we chose to remain a European act.

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

I'd known since I was 17 that I was going to be a star. It was a strange feeling but a very real one.

If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.

It's great to play live. I love it and appreciate it more than I did in the early days. It's a central part of being in A-ha.

I do respond to the ideas behind the Eurovision and 'The X Factor,' but they're both so limiting and very, very shallow.

Mind you, the limelight exists anywhere in the world. When you're not in the U.K., it can be as active somewhere else in the world, and for me, that's more or less been the case, so I never dropped out of the limelight in that sense.

Although I would like to describe the perfect day, I can't. Because a perfect day is one where there is no plan.