Quotes from Agnetha Faltskog

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn't mind doing videos, even if they came very close with the camera. I can take that, but walking on stage in concert and singing live, that is a bit difficult.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I married, was in 'Abba,' had my children, divorced, all in ten years. I wonder how I managed it, but I was young.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

My professional persona never loosens its grip, keeping an eye on me at all times.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I sing just for fun.

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.