Lykke Li Quotes

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

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.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

In every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

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

I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it

I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable?

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

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

I'm from Sweden so I don't enjoy winter at all; there's nothing cute about it.

I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

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.

I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

I'm looking forward to some peace and quiet. I fantasize about having a home, which I've kind of never had.

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

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

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

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

You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

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

I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.

Of course, there are a lot of things I'm angry about in the world.

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.

Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage. Pitchfork: Whe

Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.

It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.

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 was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

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.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.