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.

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

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.

I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that.

Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Be Yourself. An original is worth more than a copy

I may be taller than her on my knees. Does she need a man she can climb?

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.

When in doubt, I can stare blankly. The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself