No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.