I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.

I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick; it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space.

One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.

If you listen too much to doubts you're totally lost.

I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.

Swedes, compared to Americans, can seem a little cold and introverted.

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher.

My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

unrequitted love amuses me

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Breathing will change your life! Breathing is the most important thing you will ever do.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.