Quotes from Lykke Li

The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.

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'm just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don't enjoy it.

I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.

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

It's 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.

For men, it's about finding the perfect shoe or the perfect pants that will last you through the years. That's how I want to shop: sustainable, classic, great quality.

I don't live anywhere. I have always dreamed of moving out of my country because Sweden is boring.

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.

The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system.

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

There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old.

If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.

I remember watching films in my teenage years, and you'd be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, and then a song would come on. You'd love that song forever; it changed your life.

It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.

I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.

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

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.

My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core.

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