Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

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 would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

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 think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

A Mother & Daughter's Love Is Never Separated

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

I believe women do the best womenswear.