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Jens Lekman Quotes

When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to write about them. Then you might ask why I would write about them at all, but I think I owe it to the Jens of the past.

Jens Lekman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: swedish
Birth: February 6, 1981

Topics

Past Think You Done Why Write

When I was a kid, I wanted to emulate Mel Blanc, who is arguably one of the most legendary voiceover recording artists of our time. I used to watch all the cartoons where he would voice Daffy, Elmer Fudd and Porky the Pig. I knew one day I wanted to do that.

Jesse McCartney

Time Day Voice Pig One Day Kid

I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn't know it!

John C. Reilly

Good Mother Child Brother Baby Know

I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.

John Burroughs

Life Live I Am Efficiency 100 Years

I came out when I was 13 and started to become more open about liking boys, and I still ended up dating girls and boys. It seems to be the natural progression from where I was, but it wasn't a shock to anyone that I was close with.

Michael J. Willett

Dating Become More Open Out Up

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

Steve Vai

Way Never Anything Mine Stuff Van

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

Ryan Adams

I Am People Think Sometimes Kind

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story.

Rumaan Alam

Children History Parents Slavery Why

We're always skating to wherever the puck is going.

Lowell McAdam

Skating Always Wherever Going Puck

There is only one secret. To love what you are doing.

Jayne Meadows

Love Doing You Secret Only To Love

I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I'm not obsessive; I don't play in the dark, but even that's not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.

Jasper Carrott

Time Dark Wonder Play Question Out

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Dolly Parton

Looking Go Try Like Around

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

Debbie Harry

Good Humanity You Wrong Personal