“Oh Sweetie look at you; you must be the sweetest result of a condom mishap”
(Mette’s Mum, who always knows how to cheer her up)



“You have to learn what it’s like to lose. You’ve got a whole life of losing ahead of you”
(Mette’s Grandmother beating Mette’s ass in Rummy Cup.
Mette was 6)



“Never mind the other kids. I like you”
(Mette’s imaginary friend, Timothy.)



“The reason you sleep with a man is that he can lie farthest out and make sure you don’t roll over and hit the floor. That’s why people get married.”
(Mette on marriage at the age of 7. She is wiser today. And amazingly enough, married.)



“Apparently we couldn’t afford a dog, so my parents decided to just make something themselves”
(Mette, explaining to her friends (and herself) why she was having a kid sister)



“You probably weren’t impressed with my piano playing. But please bear in mind that I play this poorly on no less than 4 different instruments”
(Mette, at her interview for The Music University of Copenhagen.)



“What Jesus actually means in Matthew 5, verse 3, is that the poor are blessed in spirit, not that the poor in spirit are blessed. The reason people get confused is that there’s a comma missing in the Bible”
(Mette on the Bible at an oral religion exam. She did miraculously pass, which very much warmed her to the thought of there being a God.)



“You’re very aggressive for a girl”
(Mette’s driving instructor who she generously taught a whole new appreciation for life.)



“Wow, that was really …. brave”
(Mette’s friends, on her solo debut concert.)  



“Mette is funny and also she looks quite good
(on most pictures)”.
(Reader comment from “Sondagsavisen”)



“And you are…????”
(Morgan Freeman meeting Mette at the Ghent Film Festival)