Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.