Jens Lekman Quotes

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

I promote my own self-hatred.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

I love to be awful. There's nothing wrong with being awful.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.