Jens Lekman Quotes

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• When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getting into pop music and everything, and I remember I just wasn't interested at all. I liked drawing and science.

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  Drawing, Remember, Seven

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

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  Cutting, Arms, Lovers

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• What's broken can always be fixed
  What's fixed will always be broken

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  Broken, Fixed

  Song: Your Arms Around Me, Album: Night Falls Over Kortedala, 2007

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• I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

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  Eight, Years, House

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

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  Heart, Broken, Get Over

  Song: The World Moves On, Album: I Know What Love Isn't, 2012

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• I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

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  Kissing, Sun

  Song: And I Remember Every Kiss, Album: Night Falls Over Kortedala, 2007

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• I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.

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  Song, Writing, Insignificant Things

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

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  Girlfriend, Home, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

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  Song, Married, Trouble

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other, at first they're a bit shy, clumsy, staring at their shoes. But you can sense there's something there. So you cut and paste a little bit and by the end of the song you can spot them in the corner, holding hands.

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  Song, Cutting, Artist

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• I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album. I wanted to have some fun.

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  Fun, Long, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love a lot of old disco because it's aerodynamic, smooth, and very seductive.

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  Seductive, Smooth, Disco

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.

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  Airplane, Albums, Runway

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I lived in a suitcase for a year, and then a relationship brought me to New York for about four months, then I lived in Melbourne. Then I moved back to Gothenburg because the immigrant laws are strict for both Australia and the U.S., and I would have to marry someone to get into those countries. But I wouldn't really be able to get involved in a sham marriage without being able to tell anyone about it.

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  Country, New York, Australia

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

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  Thinking, Luxury, Gone

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.

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  Taken, Home, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

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  People, Needed, I Realized

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• It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.

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  Home, Feels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

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  Song, Piano, Trying

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

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  Song, Kind, Hard

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• I had so many songs that were actually sort of finished. And I deleted them. I wrote on my website that I'd put them on the shelf, but that wasn't true. I actually deleted them from my computer. I got sort of trigger-happy and I think I deleted about 200 songs from my computer.

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  Song, Thinking, Computer

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• Actually, I caught myself thinking that I was hoping for someone to break into my apartment and steal my computer, or a big fire would take place in my apartment, or thinking of uninstalling my firewall so someone could hack into my computer. I just had all these dreams and eventually realized what I needed to do was delete the songs because I really wasn't happy with them. I needed a fresh beginning.

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  Dream, Song, Thinking

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.

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  Song, Working A Lot, Arrangements

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.

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  Song, Play, Two

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.

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  Girlfriend, Nice, Home

  Source: pitchfork.com

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