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.
Jens LekmanI kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.
Jens LekmanI make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.
Jens LekmanSometimes 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 Lekman