In the band, we only drink three drinks a day: two golden beers and a bottle of port.
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.
Each day is a new beginning, I know that the only way to live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best in all that the day brings, and to put my trust in God.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
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.
Wearing cheap clothes or driving an old car doesn’t make you broke. You got a family to feed not a community to impress.
My mom and dad didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, itøs probably crap.
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.
Just because you’re unique, doesn’t mean you’re useful.
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
It may be that you can not buy love for money – but you can buy something similar to confusion.
Some of life’s big questions: Where do we come from, where are we going and where do we put the empty bottles?
Grief is the price we pay for love.
If you ever find yourself cringing at something you did in the past, it means you have grown as a person.