I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

- Jens Lekman

I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridic…

- Jens Lekman

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

- Jens Lekman

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

- Jens Lekman

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

- Jens Lekman

The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other…

- Jens Lekman

I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.

- Jens Lekman

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

- Jens Lekman

I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.

- Jens Lekman