It depends on what crosses my path, rather than me initiating it. And sometimes the chemistry between you and a musician is just perfect and then you… - Laurika Rauch

And after that I always tried to do that with every show and every album, there are no throw-away songs and they must all stand strong

I have a sort of thought process I go through. And what I normally do with my accompanist is that we will talk through the whole show beforehand. You go through every song and we say, oe be careful of that part, and that part and remember to do that there and so on. You get all those things out of the way and it’s filed in your brain, so by the time you walk on stage you actually do it for the second time

Terribly! Yes, yes, yes, and also, it’s quite important for me to be nervous, because if I’m not then it feels like it doesn’t matter enough