I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.
Lykke Li
If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
I don't want to break someone's heart, but you can't control that. A broken heart happens; that's inevitable.
I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.
I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.
I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new.
It's in every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.
I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.
I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.
I struggle with myself every day - I am a lonesome person. I talk to my family - and I connect to some people deeply along the way - but I am a restless soul. Singing is the most immediate relief.
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.
I'm from Sweden, so I don't enjoy winter at all; there's nothing cute about it.
It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.
It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.
I think everything in life comes in threes: heartbreak and all that. You've got to do the full round in order to learn.
The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.
For men, it's about finding the perfect shoe or the perfect pants that will last you through the years. That's how I want to shop: sustainable, classic, great quality.
My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.
I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.
I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.
I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way.
I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.
During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
I'm just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don't enjoy it.
I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.
I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores.
Most things in life come as a surprise.
I love listening to demos. They're so raw.
I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.
I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.
I'm more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It's not interesting to see straight-from-runway clothes slapped on an artist. It's more interesting when you see people who have their own style.
Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.
There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old.
I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.
I'm actually a really shy person. I just really enjoy being in studio; I don't go out much.
The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.
Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.
I remember watching films in my teenage years, and you'd be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, and then a song would come on. You'd love that song forever; it changed your life.
I want people to have a good time. It's boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.
Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.
I will never get to Lady Gaga's status. That's not something I want.
I'm going to be like Benjamin Button; I'm just going to grow younger. I will probably be happy, fat, with kids and looking back and thinking, 'I was such a angry young woman.'
The problem is, when I talk about heartbreak or whatever, people want to melt it down to some break-up of a relationship, but it's not about that. If you're a sensitive person, just stepping outside can be heartbreaking.
When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.
I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.
Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.
If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.
I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.
I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.
