Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind from the beginning. Something has happened and I want to force myself to think of it in a more positive way. And then I force myself to write something that convinces me that this is actually something pretty good or something that I learned something valuable from.
Jens LekmanI was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.
Jens LekmanI 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.
Jens LekmanI 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.
Jens LekmanI 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.
Jens LekmanI 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