I've worked with a lot of different producers, a lot of different writers on the album, so I mostly feel like I learned a lot about what I don't want to do the next time around.

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.

I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick; it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space.

One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.

If you listen too much to doubts you're totally lost.

I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.

Swedes, compared to Americans, can seem a little cold and introverted.

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher.

My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.

We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.

I am sitting here at thirty-six feeling like I am responsible for the holocaust for all that is toxic and wrong. Maybe it’s because I eat meat, and I stepped on three ants last Tuesday.

You're the WWE Champion and I would never let you down!

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.

I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms. I'm very happy and very excited.

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.