"You could say that Abba was brought together by love. Björn and I were in love with each other, and the same was true of Benny and Anni-Frid. Everybody was in love and we were turned on by each other, not least when we were working together."

"To participate in the creation of the songs and try to interpret them in your own way was the best part of being in Abba."

"It's always fun to do something that is your own thing completely, and there is no getting away from the fact that when you are working within a group, you inevitably have to make compromises."

"I am enormously self-critical, which means that most of my own compositions are thrown in the wastepaper basket."

"Agnetha could be anybody, but Agnetha Fältskog is only me."

"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 can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything."

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

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

"It has always felt like a failure that Björn 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!"

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

"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."

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

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

"I don’t want to hide the fact that Frida and I had opposite backgrounds, temperaments and personalities."

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

"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."

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

"I must be allowed to be as I am."

 

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