156 Quotes by Lykke Li

I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice but it's something that grabs you and the songs are so good.

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

I hung out with some crazy desert people. One guy was just walking around with only shorts on - he'd been walking with bare feet for the last two years. He was totally scarred and eating on all fours like a dog.

I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.

I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice and the lyrics talk for themselves. I still want to write the perfect song and sing it in the most honest, undressed way. But I feel like I have to gather more experiences and more layers in my voice. I have to live more to be able to tell this tale. So I'm saving my folk record. I have a feeling nobody will understand it.

Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away.

I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.

Еhe older you get, the more baggage you have, and the harder it is to just split.