The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

- Agnes Obel

There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the …

- Agnes Obel

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

- Agnes Obel

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

- Agnes Obel

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, …

- Agnes Obel

I love the conversation between film and music.

- Agnes Obel

When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experienc…

- Agnes Obel

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.

- Agnes Obel

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

- Agnes Obel