Jens Lekman Quotes

I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.

Jens Lekman

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• I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Life
  • God
  • Family

• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Happy
  • Easy
  • Own

• The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Lost

• If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Star
  • Never
  • Child

• A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Blood

• Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • War
  • Control
  • Dreams

• I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Heart
  • Always
  • Denial

• I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Need
  • Seem

• My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • She

• As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Change
  • Institutions

• Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Voice

• I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Different
  • Something

• I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Small

• When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Soul
  • Always
  • Find

• I think overdesigning comes from a lack of editing. The strongest, most compelling, and most useful things in life are irreducible - love, truth, faith, honor.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Faith

• I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • World
  • History

• If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Moral
  • Sex
  • Defeat

• I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Space
  • Virtue
  • Benevolence

• I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.

  

  Jens Lekman