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Lykke Li Inspirational Quotes (33)

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I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.
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I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.
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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.
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It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.
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I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.
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Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away.
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I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.
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I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.
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You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.
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I'm a really restless person I'm tired of the way I sounded or looked yesterday. So it's hard to hang onto this image of me as this young Swedish female in this world.
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Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it
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After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.
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I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years all the baby fat is gone.
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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.
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I was going on this desert adventure with some friends and we were like, How amazing would it be to just drag all these mirrors out there? A lot of times I do things as an impulse and find out my inspirations afterward. Even with songs and lyrics, it can take me years to find out what I was actually trying to do.
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It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.
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Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be totally alone on a hillside and I love that kind of secluded, deserted rawness.
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I feel it's so important to have strong women around you.
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I'm a girl from Sweden. I took a lot of risks and went to New York by myself when I was 19 just because I read about it in a few books. I came here knowing nobody, having no money, and now I'm doing all these things like making records and videos every day.
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I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.
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Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.
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Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.
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I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.
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I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.
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