Top 136 Quotes & Sayings by Jens Lekman - Page 3

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

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

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.

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

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

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

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.

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.

Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind from the beginning. Something has happened and I want to force myself to think of it in a more positive way. And then I force myself to write something that convinces me that this is actually something pretty good or something that I learned something valuable from.

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.

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.

Actually, I caught myself thinking that I was hoping for someone to break into my apartment and steal my computer, or a big fire would take place in my apartment, or thinking of uninstalling my firewall so someone could hack into my computer. I just had all these dreams and eventually realized what I needed to do was delete the songs because I really wasn't happy with them. I needed a fresh beginning.

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.

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

I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.