Lykke Li Quotes

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

I want to have time for myself, my family and my friends. It's important because in order to sing well, you must have inspiration, and inspiration comes from life, from living.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.

Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.

We’ve got to give people room to have a bad day.

To me, trying to achieve the balance is when you become good: when you have enough technique to be able to play what is that you want, but also when you can refine what you want to communicate to people. As a younger person, it wasn't something I thought about so much.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.