100 Quotes by Jens Lekman

If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.

I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to someone, especially if you are writing to a stranger, you write much more spontaneously, and it's freer.

I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.

It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.

I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

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