Charlotte Eriksson

“Fear is the thing that makes the heart grow.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“When you forget about the how, go back to the why.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Inspiration is everywhere.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I go to the ocean to say goodbye.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Dear me, one day I'll make you proud.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I learn my world through writing.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottle and your hands in mine.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest music leaving tears on the glass, which is what music does to me…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I haven’t been very impressed lately. By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi’s and goodbyes, acting…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kinds…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“... and it was quite a sad thing, the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“There comes a time for healing no matter how broken you are right now; no matter how heavy your heart is right…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I don't believe in the hero that sets out to climb a mountain and achieves it with no setbacks. I he does,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“... so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and this is…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what…

— Charlotte Eriksson