Jens Lekman Quotes

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

Life's easier and nicer when you let go of the past and look to the future.

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

It was very hard for me to put my life on paper. It was a very intimate process, very psychological, but at the same time liberating. It was like cleaning the closet, like cleaning the house... It was very refreshing.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.

With 'Guzaarish' I went through a catharsis.

Going to Belgium proved to be quite a cathartic experience for me because it eventually helped to heal the situation of leaving Leicester too.

When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins