Jens Lekman Quotes

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

I'm just trying to write things that resonate with people. And when we're all going through something together, I think you smile after that - I hope that people leave inspired after one of my shows.

I've had people call me and tell me, 'You've given me courage.' It's fantastic... it's heart-warming to know you can be a ray of hope in somebody's life.

I just want to be a light of hope for anyone who might be in the dark.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.

People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

I try to motivate people and inspire them, to let them know that they're not alone.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.

Blue is bright and gives us hope for the future.

Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.

I think that's a responsibility I have, to not leave the listener with complete dread or depressing, dark thoughts, but to leave a little door open so that you can dance your way out if you want to.

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

We want to give people positive energy and we also want to comfort people.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.