I don't know how to thank all the people listening to our music. It's so amazing to come home to my friends who resist conformity, because they're so happy that I've made it.

My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration.

I am not here to compete in the war of words, I am here to nurture the future of stories.

Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself.

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.