Jens Lekman Quotes

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.

I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.

I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.