There is always a bigger fish.
There are many ways to motivate yourself to reach a higher level. Write about it, dream about it. But once you’ve done that – make it happen. Don’t settle for dreaming.
Trust me, setting things up right from the beginning will avoid a ton of tears and heartache.
Life is too short to wear boring clothes.
If Per Bjerregaard wants to stop telling untruths about us, we will in turn fail to tell the truth about him.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
I’m called the poorest president, but I do not feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
You have to go through hell to be successful. There’s a reason the devil wears Prada.
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business – live concerts.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
It’s – sorry my French – some damn nonsense. There are certainly also pig farmers and cattle farmers who go in clean boots and clothes. You will probably find most of them, so that is why it is nonsense.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
They are some fools, excuse the expression, because they know the terms, and yet we must listen to the Norwegians’ pathetic statements every year. Many of us are fucking tired of that.
Idleness is the root of all art
Our modern world places such heavy demands on our time and attention that the need to remember our responsibilities to others is greater than ever.
When my parents went to Knoxville for work, I stayed with my dad’s mom. She was strict – the type to stiffen up and iron dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I entered the house with my hair pulled out, the ribbon off my dress, dirty as heck. I always got spanked.
You may have had fun at the time teasing, but in fact it wasn’t much fun to be teased. But I thank you, somewhere, for having done it, because it made me take up something that I love to this day – and that no one, then or now, can take me away from.
I was mortified that she disappeared before me, sitting at her writing desk, surrounded by classical music. A cerut in hand and a glass of whisky within reach.
When I die, I want to go to sleep peacefully like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
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.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.