Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.

Jens Lekman's Popular Quotes

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…

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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

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

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

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