Quotes from Lykke Li

I don't want to break someone's heart, but you can't control that. A broken heart happens; that's inevitable.

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

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.

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that.

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.

I'm more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It's not interesting to see straight-from-runway clothes slapped on an artist. It's more interesting when you see people who have their own style.

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.

I'm going to be like Benjamin Button; I'm just going to grow younger. I will probably be happy, fat, with kids and looking back and thinking, 'I was such a angry young woman.'

I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way.

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

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

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

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.

I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new.

My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.

I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon - all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.

It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black.

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