Jens Lekman Quotes

#1. What's broken can always be fixed
What's fixed will always be broken

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

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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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#8. 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.

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

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

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#13. When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

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

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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

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#18. I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

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

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

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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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#23. It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.

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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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.

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#27. 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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#28. I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

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#29. 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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#30. 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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