My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
I just want to live in peace and quiet.
When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I married, was in 'Abba,' had my children, divorced, all in ten years. I wonder how I managed it, but I was young.
There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.
There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.
I sing just for fun.
I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.
I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.
I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.
I must be allowed to be as I am.
I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.
This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.
It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
