Agnes Obel Quotes

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.

I don't make any plans. When I finish one job, I make the most of some time off, then get back on it again.

I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.

You get further if you let your mind run free and do whatever you fancy at that particular time. I don't agree with planning far ahead and saying, 'this week I'm doing this, that week I'm doing that.'

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had jobs where I'm moving around and I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

I don't try to control my days.

My policy is to have no policy.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I don't make plans anymore. So I'm not living minute to minute.

My crutch was, in improvs, when in doubt, play insane, because you didn't have to excuse anything that came out of your mouth. It didn't have to make sense.

I love seeing blank days in my calendar.

My day-to-day life changes; I don't have any standard day.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

I do not believe in planning.

Although I would like to describe the perfect day, I can't. Because a perfect day is one where there is no plan.

I like things to be unpredictable.