Jens Lekman Quotes

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

I make the kind of music I like.

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.