Agnes Obel quotes:

Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.

I love the conversation between film and music.

I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song because our memories are what make us who we are.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered the best thing ever, so I had to leave it be for a long time. But now I'm rediscovering it. I'm approaching jazz in a different way.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

I'm not into having a pedigree dog.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there arent really any rules.