Agnes Obel

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

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

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.