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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'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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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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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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For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.
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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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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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If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.
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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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I would love to hear Marilyn Manson's fans or something, what their stories would be like.
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Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.
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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 it.
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It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.
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I actually have all these tapes, from when I was five, from when I was 10, and from when I was 15, that don't really have to do anything with each other, but they're sort of archeological in my musical history.
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I found a favorite chord, which is B flat 7 - that's my favorite chord.
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I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.
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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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Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.
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I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.
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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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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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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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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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Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.
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