I'm inspired to keep on when people like what I do.

I tried to find myself and become a happy person without all the drugs and alcohol. And then I got back to Stockholm and I got pissed one night and had to sing.

When I did the vocals, I always became so angry and pissed off.

I've recorded myself for four or five years and have been doing lots of experiments. I'm not that good an engineer - so it always becomes a different song - but I have ideas.

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.

I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then...So then if you aren't, you think, 'Have I done something wrong?'

If you listen to everybody, you will be nobody.

God is a living Spirit.

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

I'm that neighborhood blizzard flooding these streets with snow.

Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.