I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.