Being a rock star isn’t all fun and games. That’s a lot of money, too.
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
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.
I will never give in to old age until I get old. And I’m not old yet!
I’m not where I want to be, but I’m proud I’m not where I used to be.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
Remember, when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
Some of life’s big questions: Where do we come from, where are we going and where do we put the empty bottles?
Accepting your nose is the first step to self-love.
Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted? I do.
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
I wish I was a cow eating grass in a field. No rent. No job. No college. Just moo.
I’ve never given myself a lot of credit because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself – when I got divorced and took control of my life.