Top 50 Lykke Li Quotes

It’s a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn’t have to be in your system.

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

It’s important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.

I’m just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don’t enjoy it.

I used to get really sick. I would go to the doctor with all these ailments, and they would tell me I needed to be at home. I didn’t even really understand what that meant because since I was a baby, I’ve always been moving, moving, and then touring.

I want people to have a good time. It’s boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

It’s the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you’re not hiding behind anything.

I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores.

I don’t want to break someone’s heart, but you can’t control that. A broken heart happens; that’s inevitable.

It’s 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.

I’m more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It’s not interesting to see straight-from-runway clothes slapped on an artist. It’s more interesting when you see people who have their own style.

I’m going to be like Benjamin Button; I’m just going to grow younger. I will probably be happy, fat, with kids and looking back and thinking, ‘I was such a angry young woman.’

I don’t live anywhere. I have always dreamed of moving out of my country because Sweden is boring.

I’ll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I’ve tried to do is just surrender to that.

Where I’ve been hasn’t influenced my music. It’s more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn’t really influenced my music, more me as a person.

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don’t have roots. I’ve never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don’t trust people.

There’s more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I’m young, but I’m old.

If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.

I don’t feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

I’m always looking for silhouettes that seem ‘invisible’ to the eye, as in that it’s so well-tailored to your body that you won’t even notice what you’re wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way.

My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I’m working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I’m still on that journey, to find that core.

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

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.

I don’t think Neil Young has a beautiful voice, but it’s something that grabs you, and the songs are so good.

I’m not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it’s made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It’s made me more myself.

I will never get to Lady Gaga’s status. That’s not something I want.

I do everything: I’ll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.

I remember watching films in my teenage years, and you’d be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, and then a song would come on. You’d love that song forever; it changed your life.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, ‘Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.’ But people are still attracted to it.

Touring is really about being on edge the whole time – you’re like a racing horse: you’ve just got to be on. You’ve got to pull it together.

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

I don’t relate to the ‘Twilight’ books or movies at all, but I’m obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon – all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.

I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new.

I’m from Sweden, so I don’t enjoy winter at all; there’s nothing cute about it.

The first tape I got was Madonna’s ‘Immaculate Collection.’ I’m inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn’t have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.

When I play, I’m so in the moment that I can’t really remember what happened afterwards. It’s a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

The problem is, when I talk about heartbreak or whatever, people want to melt it down to some break-up of a relationship, but it’s not about that. If you’re a sensitive person, just stepping outside can be heartbreaking.

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she’s not what she used to be. I’ve been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

I love listening to demos. They’re so raw.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it’s pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.

My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

I’m a very melancholic kind of person. I don’t know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.

It’s amazing, coconut oil. I use it as a moisturizer. I put it in my hair when I want a kind of greasy look. I take off my makeup with it. I put a little bit in my coffee. I have coconut oil with everything.