Quotes by Jens Lekman

Jens Lekman

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.

Dream

Song

Thinking

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.

Careers

Family And Friends

Needs

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.

Insignificant Things

Song

Writing

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.

Home

Taken

World

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.

Girlfriend

Home

Nice

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.

Eight

House

Years

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.

Computer

Song

Thinking

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

Baby

Hate

Song

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

Hard

Kind

Song

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.

Australia

Country

New York

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Airplane

Albums

Arms

Arrangements

Art

Artist

Australia

Awkward

Baby

Becoming

Broken

Careers

Computer

Country

Crowds

Culture

Cutting

Disco

Drawing

Dream

Eight

Family And Friends

Fate

Feels

Fixed

Fun

Get Over

Girlfriend

Gone

Hard

Hate

Heart

Home

House

I Realized

Insignificant Things

Investigation

Kind

Kissing

Listening

Literature

Long

Lovers

Luxury

Making Money

Married

Mind

Needed

Needs

New York

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Quotes by Jens Lekman

Jens Lekman

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

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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