When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

I lived in a suitcase for a year, and then a relationship brought me to New York for about four months, then I lived in Melbourne. Then I moved back to Gothenburg because the immigrant laws are strict for both Australia and the U.S., and I would have to marry someone to get into those countries. But I wouldn't really be able to get involved in a sham marriage without being able to tell anyone about it.

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.