In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

In Sweden, we have what is called 'The Finnish Disease.' It consists of not talking much, or at all.

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center of it all.

Love can become overused.

I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

This is a business of love and labor.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

Great changes are easier than small ones.

Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.