When I did the vocals, I always became so angry and pissed off.

I tried to find myself and become a happy person without all the drugs and alcohol. And then I got back to Stockholm and I got pissed one night and had to sing.

I'm inspired to keep on when people like what I do.

I've recorded myself for four or five years and have been doing lots of experiments. I'm not that good an engineer - so it always becomes a different song - but I have ideas.

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.

I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then...So then if you aren't, you think, 'Have I done something wrong?'

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird’s wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I’m pretty sure that’s it!

With the wolves around, your humbleness is your worst adversary.

Your brain commands your body to "Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to the infield!" Then your body says "Who me?"

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

Ham smiled. "Cett's going to be furious." Elend shrugged. "He's a paraplegic. What's he going to do? Bite us?

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.