I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.

I love pure music, but you get a more complete package with opera. It's theater, it's music, it's drama, it's scenic design.

To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.

Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were red with coals.