Latest Jens Lekman Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Jens Lekman

  Eight, Years, House

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

• 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.

  Jens Lekman

  Drawing, Remember, Seven

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

• 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.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Play, Two

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

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

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Working A Lot, Arrangements

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

• 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.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Thinking, Computer

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

• 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.

  Jens Lekman

  Dream, Song, Thinking

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

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

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Piano, Trying

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

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

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Kind, Hard

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

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

  Jens Lekman

  Home, Feels

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

• I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind from the beginning. Something has happened and I want to force myself to think of it in a more positive way. And then I force myself to write something that convinces me that this is actually something pretty good or something that I learned something valuable from.

  Jens Lekman

  Writing, Thinking, Awkward

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Jens Lekman

  Girlfriend, Nice, Home

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

  Jens Lekman

  Mind, Investigation, Remembered

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.

  Jens Lekman

  Surfing, Typical, Culture

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Baby, Hate

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridiculous.

  Jens Lekman

  Two, Records, Ridiculous

  Source: pitchfork.com

• When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've been in the same situation." I couldn't find anything at the moment, and that made me really sad.

  Jens Lekman

  Art, Literature, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.

  Jens Lekman

  Careers, Family And Friends, Needs

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

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

  Jens Lekman

  Seductive, Smooth, Disco

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Jens Lekman

  Country, New York, Australia

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Jens Lekman

  Taken, Home, World

  Source: pitchfork.com