Jens Lekman Quotes

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

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

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.

All I can do with my music is try and be a light for people who are in a dark time.

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.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

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.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

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

To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just sink in with me. But it proves to me that music is powerful.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better.

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

I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.