Jens Lekman Quotes

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.

'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I guess, for me, the idea of finding an identity through creative means has always been a way to deal with otherwise feeling awkward and uncomfortable out in the world.

My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed.

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

I don't love who I am so I'm working on a fix

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.