In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
I believe that if you just get up and go, life will open up to you.
In the band, we only drink three drinks a day: two golden beers and a bottle of port.
There are some who claim that football is a matter of life and death. It’s an attitude that disappoints me. I can assure you that football is much more than that!
I’m not where I want to be, but I’m proud I’m not where I used to be.
Over the years, those who have seemed to me to be the most happy, contented and fulfilled have always been the people who have lived the most outgoing and unselfish lives.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
And what happens when you go away? When life’s shirt gets too short? Where is the common thread? You have to become something!
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
If we think that the way we live is good enough, then we’re completely wrong. You have to be able to doubt so that you can see that it can be done differently.
My family is so poor that we combined my father’s funeral with my 50th birthday.
I’ve never worried about my color. I never had the black thing. If the whole world was like this, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe it is. I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
In a rain of dollar bills, anything can be done
I may offend some people, but about 80% of people are idiots. At least when it comes to money.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
I desire nothing, but I want everything.
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
We never played hide and seek when we were children. No one ever bothered to look for us.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
I have an agreement with Lilholt and Olsen that we always play a Dalton song when we’re out on a solo tour, as it costs 280 kroner in Koda tax. It’s not much, but for them it’s a lot.