Jens Lekman Quotes

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

From a very young age, my main thing was always entertaining.

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.