I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore.

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

My husband, when I was filming the Millennium movies, he asked me, 'How far are you going and when are you coming back?'

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

I know this is war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Some of the greatest guitarists, historically, have had no chops, they've just had great taste. I know a lot of musical school kids who just have no taste.

I am unlimited in my own ability to create the good in my life.

Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.