Take it easy. Don't approach music as a religion.

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.

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

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.

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music. If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own. So then I try, and I watch it become something totally different. But that's the way I have to do it.

I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.