I never wanted to be a pop star.

When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Where I come from, it's a little bit like England. We start from the theater, and we do films a bit on our free time. The history of making films in Scandinavia is so old, it's like the oldest. The Nordic film industry started before Hollywood in Stockholm in Copenhagen.