I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.

I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.

Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.

I live a bit outside of Stockholm and I almost never go into town. I can live anywhere, I think.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

For the space of many, many years, you were enough for me. You were my bliss, and my hallelujah.

What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you.

Crowns and thrones are all bodies which rise and perish and leave the world as it is.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

I'm not going to get an Oscar at 30 - that's done. So I'll think of something else.

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.