My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

The real demon in my life is my father.

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

The lowest of the low areas probably shouldn't be redeveloped.