Jens Lekman Quotes

In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies.

I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.

I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.

I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was always interested in writing or illustrating children's books, and I started collecting out-of-print books when I was about 10 years old.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

When I was a kid, I was really into 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'Friday the 13th.' But as I got older and started working as an actor, I did not really get scared by horror movies as much, so I am not as into them anymore.

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

When I was really young, I can remember being into fashion, but I was really into horses and sports.

I don't listen to the albums that I make, and I don't listen to a lot of music as a whole.

At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.

My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.

I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route.

I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.