Lykke Li Quotes

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

My films, no one else will do.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.

I still want to do features, but on my own terms.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

I think people know by now that I do my own writing.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.