As of today, I have one hundred forty (140) compositions registered at STIM (Swedish Composers International Musicbureau). It's the organization that collects revenue from performances worldwide and pays it out to the music rights owners.

In April last year, my daughter Melissa told me they would get another dog. It made perfect sense as Ture the family's 12-year-old Yorkshireterrier is in his last years. She told me she was looking for a mixed breed this time as a pure Yorkie was too expensive.

I'll just start with a comparison: A composition for Piano solo contains of two staves, a stringquartet contains of four staves. My symphony contains of 37(!) staves. The instrumentation of the orchestra for my Second Symphony (so far): Piccolo flute, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in Bb, Bass clarinet, Soprano Sax, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax, 2 bassons, Contrabassoon, 2 Horns in F, 2 trumpets in Bb, 2 trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (Cymbals, Gongs, Snare drum, Tom-toms, Taiko drum, triangle), Tubular Bells, celesta, Piano, Harp, Strings. As you can understand, keeping track of such a large score takes both patience and a good memory. So the process is tedious and has taken a lot of resources from me. That's why I have, on and off, been composing the first two movements for the past five months.

I never knew that I would be able to call myself an artist, but that's what I am also, not 'only' a composer. And that is from one who during the school years almost didn't get a grade in art! So there's hope for everyone whose dreams were killed during school years.

Last year I started by composing a Piano Sonata for my wife Miriam to give her for her birthday. Miriam is a skilled pianist and educator, she also has perfect pitch so when she's in a choir it usually holds the key.An interesting aspect of our relationship is that we attended the same music school, and had the same piano teacher. But eight years apart she is almost nine years younger than me. ( Both of our fathers were also priests in the Swedish Lutheran church, and had fabulous tenor singing voices!)

I recently got a question (again) how it is possible to be this productive in composing music?I have since restarted my career as a composer composing more than nine hours of music. It's more than seventy different compositions, some of them are divided into movements so that's even more.