Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.

My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the solders as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I'm not sure it's true.

I was born into a family of preachers.

I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.