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I Think There Are A Lot Of Similarities Between Writing And Music. Music Is Much More Direct And Much More Emotional And That's The Level I Want To Be At When I'm Writing. Writing Is Much More Intellectual And Indirect And Abstract, In A Way.

The Way We Deny Death Says Something About How We Live Our Lives, Doesn't It? At Least In Sweden Or Scandinavia, You Don't Have To Search Further Back In Time Than Maybe Three Generations To Find Another Way To Relate To Death. People Then Had A Different, Closer Relationship With Death; At Least It Was Like That In The Countryside.

I Think That The Best Literature Has A Core That You Can't Lock To A Time Or Place But That Can Generate Lots Of Meanings And Translations.

You Don’t Think When You Play Music, You Just Try To Play And Be In It. It Is The Same For Me When The Writing Is Going Really Well. It’s The Same Kind Of Feeling. I’m Just In It. It’s Not The Words, It’s Not The Sentences, I’m Not Aware Of It. Then It’s Good.

For Me, Personally, It Is Very Important That The Days Are Exactly The Same, So I Have Routines. I Do The Same Thing Every Day.