Jens Lekman Quotes
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I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought and my own opinions, but be able to portray someone else and take a walk in their shoes for a while.
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Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.
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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' became an outlet for that. And then I could get back to get Jens Lekman again.
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In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw you in a completely different direction. You just thought, 'What if I take this samba drum and combined it with an '80s synth line or something from this record?'
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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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I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just so stupid.
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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 still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.
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Christmas music is usually more concentrated pop music in a way. It's meant to make us feel good, and it's meant to make us like we belong somewhere.
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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 think, because artists like Jose Gonzalez or The Knife can actually get on the charts.
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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 to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.
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I would love to hear Marilyn Manson's fans or something, what their stories would be like.
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When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by offering it in the music, so that you can dance your way out of the darkness.
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I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.
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Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.
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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 would be about choices, fears and doubts, and it had an existentialist theme to it.
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I've started listening to music in a new way after I started running. When it comes to running, I really got into the idea of track listings that way, too.
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If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.
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I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music.
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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 of stuff is very central to my music and my life.
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If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.
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I found a favorite chord, which is B flat 7 - that's my favorite chord.
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I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart.
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It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.