I'd seen a lot of these people before, the same producers, same stylist, but now we were being treated like royalty. No one could joke around with us, because we were actually big, we were at the top, we were the best. We got a lot of nice backing and fantastic reviews and it opened many doors. It was like a snowball, rolling more and more, faster. All the tension was just a bit too much for us.

I was safe, I had my heart and soul in the right place, but she didn't.Īfterward, we were sitting in a car in New Castle in Great Britain, traveling in the nighttime, and our managers were calling us on our mobile: 'You should know that you're #1 in the States now.' All four of us went back to sleep. I remember when the police came and took her away, I felt so sorry for myself and for her.

We could tell that she'd been looking at MTV too much. She had our number and we changed it, but she continued coming to see us because we were like a drug to her. I remember it because when I went to my diary to research my book, I saw that I was #1 in the States. My mother and father threw themselves at this woman, and that saved my life, I think. One night when I was home sleeping, I woke up with a knife at my neck. We were working very much and were on the road constantly. I went to clubs in Gothenburg, and suddenly someone came up to me and said, 'So you're the one singing on 'The Sign'?' Then he said, 'I don't like your music and I don't like you.' I had to ask, 'Is it just me or is it our kind of music?' He said it was our music, so it was a big shock for us to come to the States and see we were so well-received.

You have to get big abroad before you get big at home. We'd had success in England as a #1, and then we went over to the States. We started in Denmark, then we hit all over in Scandinavia and Germany before we even got close to being known in Sweden. I played around with the chords at the end and made the harmonies around it, and the guy in the studio said, 'Please do that a lot of times.' The high part was just her imagination. She was happy with that, and I was, too, and the way we sang it was just very joyful. But on 'The Sign,' we split the song like we wanted to do, and so it became a duet.

I saw the sign