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Jens Lekman
Jens Lekman
Swedish Musician
Born: Feb 6, 1981
About Me Music People Think You
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Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Jens Lekman
You Yourself Sometimes Before Phoenix Rise Like Burn Ashes Ground
I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better. Jens Lekman
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I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious. Jens Lekman
You Joke Think Telling Someone Like Discover Very Irony Then Much Sarcasm Serious
Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ. Jens Lekman
Good Me Band Would Would-Be Followed Comedian Really Evening
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. Jens Lekman
Funny You Beatles Relatives Uncle Every Other Enough Meet Slightly Someone Something Wedding Beat Beatles Songs Songs Weirdo Always Up Get Trying Different Playing
Hmm... at some point when I was making 'Postcards,' it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It would be about choices, fears and doubts, and it had an existentialist theme to it. Jens Lekman
Me Fears Would Would-Be Postcards Record Some About Struck Point Had Underlying Making Theme Themes Choices Doubts
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. Jens Lekman
Me Happy People Too Mood Mood Swings Sure Idiots Friends Bunch Just England Swings
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. Jens Lekman
Music Carefully Ukulele Never Had Part Devoured How Planned Suddenly Awe Image Watched Imagined
I started running to different albums, and I was starting with the short albums and moving on to the longer albums. I was interested in how they built up, in tempo and intensity. it made me interested in albums again, too. Jens Lekman
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If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again. Jens Lekman
Beard Will Would Would-Be Never Pick Up Again Grow Things Two
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. Jens Lekman
Music Me First Band Own Musical Background Tricks Would My Own Never Students Had Studied Stuff Come First Grade Know Drummer Learn Because Discover Lot Up Grade Interesting Rhythms Teaching Theory Who Things Started
My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects. Jens Lekman
Love You Song Every Aim Say Able Some About Purpose Abstract Most Subjects Heartbreak
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. Jens Lekman
Life Sense Think Everyone Make Because Get Stories Story Interested Depressed Reasons
You always try different versions of yourself through songwriting. It can get a bit annoying to see them walk around and do their thing when you feel like, 'I'm not that person any more.' Jens Lekman
You Yourself Walk Try Bit See More Through Songwriting Feel Like Annoying Around Always Versions Person Get Any Different Them Thing
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. Jens Lekman
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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. Jens Lekman
Culture Live Around Very Stockholm Bands Centered Place Used Cool Shrimp Bingo Copenhagen Played
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. Jens Lekman
Time Myself Every Every Time Relationships Out Would Something Had Like Couple Felt Real Male Friends Friendships Hang Apart Them Us Asking Why Keeping Early Started
Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?' Jens Lekman
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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. Jens Lekman
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I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me. Jens Lekman
Time Me People Thought Long Long Time Out Paranoid Became Were Harm
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. Jens Lekman
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Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem. Jens Lekman
Sense Of Humor Problem Humor Band Sense Bit Any Little Little Bit
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. Jens Lekman
Me People World Sometimes Long Thinking Else Secrets Tell Would Some Write Like Sort Felt Were Chest Lot Anybody Anybody Else Stories Loved Whole Keep Lives Treasure
Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves. Jens Lekman
You Somewhere Band Nirvana Opposed Led Began Bands Ended Themselves Grunge
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. Jens Lekman
Life You People Think Sung Sexy About Stuff Unsung Period Terribly Because Get Artists Patterns Realize Your Avoiding Who Many Lives Start
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. Jens Lekman
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