Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.

To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well.

Denmark is, of course is very much like Germany: in terms of culture, the same kind of thinking, etc.

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural.

Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions.

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

Only fate would decree how it reached its destiny, which always waited just around the corner, over the hill...

That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed.

She had always been comforted by confectionery

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.

You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one

You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.