Jens Lekman Quotes

But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public own it. It's their song. It might be their song that they wake up to, or their song they have a shower to, or their song that they drive home to or their song they cry to, scream to, have babies to, have weddings to - like, it isn't your song anymore.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.

Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.

Batman's not mine. He doesn't necessarily belong to me. As a character, he belongs first to the audience and second to the hundreds of writers who have been writing him in comics for 75 years.

We wrote 'Stellify' for Rihanna, but as we got to the end of writing it, I thought, 'You know what? I'm gonna keep this for myself. We'll give her another one.' She'd have probably sung it better, but it is too good for me not to do it.

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.

I believe that once I put music out, it's owned by the listener.

My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.

You put a piece of music out, and it's not in your hands anymore, and that's cool with me.

As I was writing 'Insidious 3' I started to fall in love with the characters and the story. I became very possessive of it and I didn't want someone else to do it.

I just don't want any songs to go unheard.

I think music is supposed to be shared.

I'm mostly fine with anyone using my music for whatever. Everything's just compost that gets reused.

When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is - I don't even want to say that it's mine, because it's yours.

I made 'Supreme Clientele' what it is. Those are my stories, based around whatever they're based upon. It's me.

I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.

Only I hold the right to all my songs.

As an actor you can always blame the director or writer for negative feedback. But as a writer, you're the reason why everyone's in the room.

I want to record many albums, have a healthy record label with talented artists, keep building my publishing catalogue, and maintain our culture with good music that will be remembered for years to come.

To know that the people who are singing along at your show actually have something in common with you and can identify with what you've gone through, makes the songs that much more meaningful to sing.