People ask if it is difficult to play while drunk. It’s not, as long as you make sure you are when you practice.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
Ike’s problem was that he was a musician who always wanted to be a star; and he was a star, locally, but never internationally… so he changed his name to Ike and changed my name to Tina, because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented, as they say.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
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.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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.
Bitter? No, it’s something we drink.
I may offend some people, but about 80% of people are idiots. At least when it comes to money.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you like what you do, you will succeed.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
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.
All warfare is based on deception.
I usually teasingly say that FCK is a superstructure, while Brøndby is a merger, a municipal entrepreneurial project that led to professional conditions.
It’s not about whether you get knocked down. It’s about whether you get back up again.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
There’s one thing worse than being boring. It is to be immoral
The women’s struggle today is an individual struggle (…) You can’t demand equal pay if you also want to have a long maternity leave, stay at home when they are sick and be there primarily for the children.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
If you are 17 and live in Albertslund, what can you become? Maybe you can study in a bakery.
I don’t trust anyone who’s nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.
In a rain of dollar bills, anything can be done
Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.
Maybe it should have changed me more [to become a mother, ed.]. I sometimes wonder if I was at home enough with my children, but it’s no use now, because it can’t be helped. They have survived.