Create a paradise anywhere you go.

I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me.

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those symphony orchestras. If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club. For me music was not about that. It is about freedom and expression and individuality and impulsiveness and spontaneity. It wasn't so Apollonian; it was more Dionysian.

Americans are so dumb!