If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
People think my life has been hard, but I think it’s been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realize that it’s not about what happens, but how you deal with it.
Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
There is always a bigger fish.
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
At my age, you think about the afterlife. I’m mostly inclined to think there’s nothing there, but sometimes I can’t help but let my imagination run wild. My good friend Ulla Steen says she believes that all of us who like each other meet in the big angel bar where we are expected. I see myself arriving at the angel bar, and there’s my father, my husband and my son, and one of them says: “There’s Lise. Now we are four again for a l’hombre.
Age is not an obstacle. It is a limitation you impose on your mind.
Lotto is a tax for stupid people. An extra tax.
Ultimately, it is the extra effort that separates the best from the second best. It requires ambition, determination, discipline and a willingness to sacrifice. If you add all this up, and even if you don’t win – how can you lose?
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
I will not promise to make history. But nothing is impossible.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
Some of life’s big questions: Where do we come from, where are we going and where do we put the empty bottles?
If they want to be with sour and awkward people during their vacation, well, then they should probably choose another travel agency.
If you are 17 and live in Albertslund, what can you become? Maybe you can study in a bakery.
When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
A good person, there can not be too much of.
Don’t let what you can’t do get in the way of what you can.
Whoever said “Out of sight, out of mind” never had a spider disappear in their bedroom.
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
My uncle always said: There are two kinds of music: country and western.
Maintain a natural gait even if you shit your pants