Latest Lykke Li Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm a girl from Sweden. I took a lot of risks and went to New York by myself when I was 19 just because I read about it in a few books. I came here knowing nobody, having no money, and now I'm doing all these things like making records and videos every day.

  Lykke Li

  Girl, New York, Book

  Source: pitchfork.com

• It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.

  Lykke Li

  People, Lovely, Would Be

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Lykke Li

  Hip Hop, Biggie, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Lykke Li

  Different, Want, Relate

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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

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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.

  Lykke Li

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

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  Kind, Knows, Wounds

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Lykke Li

  Wounded, Hard

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable?

  Lykke Li

  Artist, Thinking, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Еhe older you get, the more baggage you have, and the harder it is to just split.

  Lykke Li

  Splits, Baggage, Harder

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

  Lykke Li

  Dream, Sleep, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.

  Lykke Li

  Sex, Thinking, Who I Am

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all suicidal and depressed, and I just start writing. It's like this inner drive. If I could choose, I would probably be living in the countryside and be fine with that, but I'm not.

  Lykke Li

  Writing, Suicidal, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

• It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

  Lykke Li

  Trying, Sane

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• I'm looking forward to some peace and quiet. I fantasize about having a home, which I've kind of never had.

  Lykke Li

  Home, Looking Forward, Quiet

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I would want to create an amphitheater outside of California where I would play everyday, and then people would have to come to me. I would create all this crazy stage decor and film it. Or I would just stay inside my home and do films. I would be like the modern Maya Deren.

  Lykke Li

  Crazy, Home, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Lykke Li

  Airports, Creative, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Lykke Li

  Art, Reality, Escaping

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I had a period after touring the first record where I didn't agree with the way things worked in the music industry as far as how you release music, demand, the pace of everything. You don't know who's talking to you. Who's Spotify? Who's iTunes? Who are all those bloggers? Who says I have to do this? Why do you have to do all this press? Why do I have to do so many shows? Why do I have to do a regular album right now? I don't understand it.

  Lykke Li

  Talking, Way, Firsts

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I was going on this desert adventure with some friends and we were like, "How amazing would it be to just drag all these mirrors out there?" A lot of times I do things as an impulse and find out my inspirations afterward. Even with songs and lyrics, it can take me years to find out what I was actually trying to do.

  Lykke Li

  Song, Inspiration, Adventure

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Lykke Li

  Depressing, Sadness, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Lykke Li

  Beautiful, Lying, Adventure

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Lykke Li

  Desert, Red, Bigs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Lykke Li

  Sake

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• I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

  Lykke Li

  Tape, Band, Laptops

  Source: pitchfork.com