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.

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

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?'

Any goal, no matter what size, can be achieved if it is tackled with courage, initiative, perseverance, and integrity.

I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

My parents have been with me every step of the way.

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

As I always say, 'Not always right, but never in doubt.'