The Nature Of Scandinavians Is That They

I Have To Feel That I'm Going Somewhere All The Time. By Definition, If You Have This Urge To Go Places, Then You Can't Be 100 Percent Happy Where You Are. It's Not Like I Enjoy Being Miserable For Weeks On End. But I Think It's Good To Be Miserable For About One Day Every Third Week - That's Ideal For Me.

I Tell Myself I Write Because I Want To Say Something True And Original About The Nature Of Evil. That Is Very Ambitious - To Say Something About The Human Condition That Hasn't Been Written Before. Probably I Will Never Succeed But That Is What I Strive To Do.

Those Golden Minutes Before You Are Completely Awake, When Your Mind Is Just Drifting, You Have No Censorship; You Are Ready To Develop Any Kind Of Idea. That's When I Come Up With The Best And Worst Ideas. That Is The Privilege Of Being A Writer - That You Can Stay In Bed For An Hour In The Morning And It's Work Time.

With Regard To Power, Women Don't Have The Vanity Men Have. They Don't Need To Make Power Visible, They Only Want The Power To Give Them The Other Things They Want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They Are Rational, Power-seeking Planners, Who Think Beyond The Battle, Beyond The Victory Celebrations. And Because They Have An Inborn Capacity To See Weakness In Their Victims, They Know Instinctively When And How To Strike. And When To Stop. You Can't Learn That.

Some Artists See A Gig As An Audience Worshipping Them. I Think It Is About Having A Great Time Together. I Have A Part As The Singer. An Audience Has A Part. Playing A Gig Doesn't Make Me High On Myself.