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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like the few times in my life when I really felt like I love my own story is when I've been the happiest.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to hear Marilyn Manson's fans or something, what their stories would be like.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never felt at home in Kortedala, or in Gothenburg, so I always felt like I needed to go somewhere and find some kind of perspective on things.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beatles Songs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
You carry all these hurts and breakups with you forever. But there is this sort of joyful realization that the things that caused you pain were real. There is something beautiful and invigorating in holding onto that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have mood swings, but I'm sure people in England have that, too. Me and my friends, we're just a bunch of happy idiots.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by offering it in the music, so that you can dance your way out of the darkness.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.
- Nirvana
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Longing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's because Toronto is the Gothenburg of Canada, with the trends and the music and everything. I feel very at home when I'm there. Everyone has always been so kind to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Language
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