It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
In the band, we only drink three drinks a day: two golden beers and a bottle of port.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
Take from the poor and give to the rich – and the land will become richer. Take from the rich, and give to the poor – and the land will become poorer. The poor have it in them to scrape the money away.
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.
I wish I was a cow eating grass in a field. No rent. No job. No college. Just moo.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
You start by saving up 100 million kroner and take it from there.
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.
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.
My mom and dad didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.
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.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
We never played hide and seek when we were children. No one ever bothered to look for us.
When you get as old as I am and no longer have a husband or dog, and the children have long since left home, you can sit and get a little wiser by thinking. Then it’s time to edit your memories and start looking at your life again. First come the regrets, then come the wrongs you’ve done, mistakes you’ve made – and all the things you can sit and brood over if you’re already in a bad mood. But you can also understand people and contexts in a new way.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
I desire nothing, but I want everything.
Being a rock star isn’t all fun and games. That’s a lot of money, too.