Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.

Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.

I live a bit outside of Stockholm and I almost never go into town. I can live anywhere, I think.

I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what’s going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

I won't lie I still keep searching why people... I'm very curious what does it make them so safety to lie?

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.