I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

Trust is not hoping your partner will love you

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

The horse is a mirror to your soul... and sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror.

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share of an economy that is barely growing at all.

But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.