Jens Lekman Quotes

I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. Nobody really blow up from Birmingham, Ala.

I don't want to be nostalgic for some kind of laid-back Austin where nothing was happening.

Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986.

I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

I want Baltimore to be the coolest city in the world.

I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the youngest place - there's no history to Los Angeles. Everything's fake.

I just love the culture of Melbourne.

We're very proud of our cultural life. Culture is to London what the sun is to Spain. It's a major driver for our tourism.

Minneapolis, in general, has been there with me since the beginning. They made me feel important before I really even had a foundation. I think a lot of it has to do with it's such an intense music city in its own right.

I didn't really experience any hardship like people tend to think of when they hear the words 'Detroit, Michigan.' I think Big Sean is a much better ambassador for the city.

We really like L.A. because it really likes rock and roll.

The whole of Cornwall has become antiseptic. When I was growing up in St. Austell, the county was wonderfully rough and workish. These days it is polite and Disney-fied.

The younger generation of filmmakers is concerned about our roots, rather than making films with characters plucked out of the cloud or some English DVD. Actually since 2000, Tamil cinema is going through some positive changes.

I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's a modern city.

Washington D.C. and the entire DMV area are very dope places because they're such musically-inclined areas.

If I paid more attention to my appearance, people might think that the proficiency of design industry isn't too bad in a city with such a chief executive.