Lykke Li Quotes

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

It took me a long time to grow up.

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.

It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we come to full adulthood.

I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.