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

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Jens Lekman
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 6
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Göteborg
Gracefully
Carry
Broken
Learn
Heart

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I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.
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I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.
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I had so many songs that were actually sort of finished. And I deleted them. I wrote on my website that I'd put them on the shelf, but that wasn't true. I actually deleted them from my computer. I got sort of trigger-happy and I think I deleted about 200 songs from my computer.
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I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.
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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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I would cut off my right arm to be someone's lover.
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I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.
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Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.
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Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.
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I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.
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The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.
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It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.
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When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, I've been in the same situation. I couldn't find anything at the moment, and that made me really sad.
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I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.
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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 would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun.
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