Jens Lekman

I think there are definitely a lot of subjects I don't share with people, but I'm not sure where that border is.

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I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found…

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I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm…

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I have this part in myself that sometimes gets me into situations that can never end well, just because I want to…

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I have mood swings, but I'm sure people in England have that, too. Me and my friends, we're just a bunch of…

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I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album.…

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Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.

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It's good to let go of control. That's probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.

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I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close…

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It's not difficult getting into the charts in Sweden. It's a very different musical climate, and in a very good way, I…

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When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to…

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I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn't like myself very much. 'Ghostwriting'…

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When I was a kid, I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so…

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Hmm... at some point when I was making 'Postcards,' it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It…

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A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as…

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I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think…

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I feel like the few times in my life when I really felt like I love my own story is when I've…

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I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke,…

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My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind…

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Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories.

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I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just…

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The idea of printing out something that's as scary as a tumor into its concrete form was something that spoke to me…

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'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'

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Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

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I think that's a responsibility I have, to not leave the listener with complete dread or depressing, dark thoughts, but to leave…

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I've never felt at home in Kortedala, or in Gothenburg, so I always felt like I needed to go somewhere and find…

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The whole thing with playing on a stage with mics and all that has always been kind of uncomfortable to me.

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I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an…

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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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I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

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It's weird talking about the album as a living being with its own thoughts and direction, especially if you're the one creating…

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My songs don't deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they're sort of…

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I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in…

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This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their…

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For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major…

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I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that…

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I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

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Of the times that I've been able to overcome a fear, it's been by making it something that I can understand, that…

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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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I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to…

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