Lykke Li Quotes

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• I hate the fact you always feel like you have to be going somewhere, like the end destination is to be finished, or to be happy. But the truth is a lot of us are completely lost, and we don’t know, and that is also a state of mind, to not know who you are and where you’re going.

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  Hate, Mind, Facts

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• If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

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  Creating, Being Ignored, Finding Yourself

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• I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

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  Believe, Jeans, Compromise

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• Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away.

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  Dream, Life Is, Greater

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

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  Art, Reality, Escaping

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

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  Running, Stars, Years

  "Lykke Li: Better Off Alone" by Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2014.

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• I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

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  Strong, Personality, Different

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• I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

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  Desert, Red, Bigs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel it's so important to have strong women around you.

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  Strong Women, Strong, Important

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.

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  People, Giving, Trying

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February, 28 2011.

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• After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.

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  Wounded, Hard

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I remember watching Romeo + Juliet when I was 14 and listening to the soundtrack. When I hear that soundtrack now, all those emotions come back. It's really beautiful when you're at a certain point in your life where most of the adventure lies ahead of you. And it's a sad thing when you feel like you've lost that. But you can get it back.

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  Beautiful, Lying, Adventure

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

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  Sake

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

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  Psychedelic, Aggressive, Wanted

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• You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

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  Nuts, Desert, Hours

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.

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  Depressing, Sadness, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice and the lyrics talk for themselves. I still want to write the perfect song and sing it in the most honest, undressed way. But I feel like I have to gather more experiences and more layers in my voice. I have to live more to be able to tell this tale. So I'm saving my folk record. I have a feeling nobody will understand it.

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  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

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  Airports, Creative, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

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  Kind, Knows, Wounds

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.

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  Different, Want, Relate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be totally alone on a hillside and I love that kind of secluded, deserted rawness.

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  Light, Cities, Evil

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Of course, there are a lot of things I'm angry about in the world.

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  World, Courses, Angry

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.

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  Hip Hop, Biggie, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage.
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  Fighting, Men, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge."

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  Sex, War, Race

  Source: pitchfork.com

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