Lykke Li Quotes

When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't do it," we say to the child, run away from home... You must follow your dream. You will never be joyful if you don't. Your dream may change, but you've got to stay after your dreams. You have to.

For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.

I don't want to be just a performer.

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

People live by example. I can't tell you, "You can be anything," if I shot my own dreams down or was too afraid to go after them.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That's the dream.

I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.

I've spent my life following my passion.

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.

I was neither good in sports nor at studies, but I always wanted to stand out and be noticed.

The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

For me, it's not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.

I am so blessed to do what I love to do, but becoming a solo artist terrified me!

Whenever any television actor looks up to me, I say I haven't done anything great; I just followed my dream.

I don't think when I decided I didn't want to be an accountant any more that I was necessarily saying I wanted to be an NBA head coach. I just really wanted to figure out if I could do it.

I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow your dreams.