156 Quotes by Lykke Li

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there’s so much evil in that city, but there’s also so much light. You can be totally alone on a hillside and I love that kind of secluded, deserted rawness.

I’m really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it’s been with me forever.

People comment on how you look, it’s so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else.

It’s not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That’s not easy.

I’m a girl from Sweden. I took a lot of risks and went to New York by myself when I was 19 just because I read about it in a few books. I came here knowing nobody, having no money, and now I’m doing all these things like making records and videos every day.

I’m a really restless person; I’m tired of the way I sounded or looked yesterday. So it’s hard to hang onto this image of me as this young Swedish female in this world.

I feel it’s so important to have strong women around you.

I had to do this album. I tried thinking, “I’m not going to do it.” But then I’m sitting there getting all suicidal and depressed, and I just start writing. It’s like this inner drive. If I could choose, I would probably be living in the countryside and be fine with that, but I’m not.