Swedish - Musician | February 6, 1981 -
I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation.
Jens Lekman
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I think, in a world of mouths, I want to be an ear.
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I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.
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Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.
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If there's two things I will never do, it would be grow a beard and pick up the uke again.
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I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.
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My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just naturally took place more in Melbourne.
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Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.
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I grew up in the '90s and remember the lyrics back then were so abstract and open to interpretation. That always drove me crazy.
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My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.
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If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.
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This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.
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