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I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish.

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

My friends who are not from Sweden tell me that I'm more reserved or maybe more ... I guess the opposite of what a Latin American would be. Maybe because Scandinavians are more careful with their words and I guess it takes a lot to become a friend of a Swede.

I have just discovered the beautiful poetry of Soren Ulrik Thomsen. Danish is not the strongest of languages, but he uses it very well.

I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course.