Lykke Per Quotes

#1. I went to 11 different schools. It was a fantastic adventure, but I was incredibly sensitive and needed a bit more stability.

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#2. The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

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#3. 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?

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#4. Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.

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#5. I'm going to be like Benjamin Button; I'm just going to grow younger. I will probably be happy, fat, with kids and looking back and thinking, 'I was such a angry young woman.'

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#6. People comment on how you look; it's so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else.

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#7. If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.

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#8. Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.

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#9. I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

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#10. The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.

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#11. Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage.
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#12. I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

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#13. Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

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#14. A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

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#15. I hate the fact you always feel like you have to be going somewhere, like the end destination is to be finished, or to be happy. But the truth is a lot of us are completely lost, and we don't know, and that is also a state of mind, to not know who you are and where you're going.

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#16. I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores.

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#17. I'm just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don't enjoy it.

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

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#19. When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

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#20. When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

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#21. If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

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#22. I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

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#23. I'm actually a really shy person. I just really enjoy being in studio; I don't go out much.

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#24. I will never get to Lady Gaga's status. That's not something I want.

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#25. I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

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#26. I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.

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#27. You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

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#28. It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.

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#29. I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

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#30. My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that.

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