Jens Lekman

Summer is always best through a window.

— Jens Lekman

I have a very nice voice.

— Jens Lekman

I don't want music to be a museum.

— Jens Lekman

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

— Jens Lekman

I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.

— Jens Lekman

There's so much nostalgia for music from the past.

— Jens Lekman

I think, in a world of mouths, I want to be an ear.

— Jens Lekman

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

— Jens Lekman

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

— Jens Lekman

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

— Jens Lekman

I like short beards. Not a big fan of the bigger beards.

— Jens Lekman

I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into…

— Jens Lekman

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

— Jens Lekman

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…

— Jens Lekman

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I…

— Jens Lekman

I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.

— Jens Lekman

You always try different versions of yourself through songwriting. It can get a bit annoying to see them walk around and do…

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My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about…

— Jens Lekman

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…

— Jens Lekman

I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come…

— Jens Lekman

When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to…

— Jens Lekman

I actually have all these tapes, from when I was five, from when I was 10, and from when I was 15,…

— Jens Lekman

When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the…

— Jens Lekman

I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums,…

— Jens Lekman

When I was working on 'Night Falls Over Kortedala,' I was listening a lot to 'Graceland,' the Paul Simon record. I really…

— Jens Lekman

I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and…

— Jens Lekman

Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and…

— Jens Lekman

I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but…

— Jens Lekman

I lived in a suitcase for a year, and then a relationship brought me to New York for about four months, then…

— Jens Lekman

Actually, I caught myself thinking that I was hoping for someone to break into my apartment and steal my computer, or a…

— Jens Lekman

Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been…

— Jens Lekman

Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.

— Jens Lekman

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

— Jens Lekman

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

— Jens Lekman

Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.

— Jens Lekman

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

— Jens Lekman

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

— Jens Lekman

What I can't fit into my suitcase is probably something I don't need.

— Jens Lekman

If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.

— Jens Lekman

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

— Jens Lekman