100 Quotes by Jens Lekman

The whole thing with playing on a stage with mics and all that has always been kind of uncomfortable to me.

I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.

Getting my hair cut is just a very special moment for me. I don't know exactly why, but it's such an intimate, almost religious experience. I'm very careful with who gets to cut my hair.

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

I have this part in myself that sometimes gets me into situations that can never end well, just because I want to prove to myself that I'm no good.

The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.

It was never part of how I imagined my music, and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly devoured the Jens Lekman I had planned so carefully.