Jens Lekman Quotes

I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

I think the third record is the hardest one.

The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

Albums take a lot out of you.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

I'm not a hit machine.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

And I had such a great working experience with Paul during the 'RAM' album.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.

I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.

I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

My next baby will be my new record.

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.