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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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Lykke Li
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: March 18
Film Actor
Model
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
Lykke Zachrisson
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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 lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.
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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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It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.
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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 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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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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