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" Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch '21 Grams.' I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever. "
Lykke Li
Me
Comedy
People
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" It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything. "
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" I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes. "
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" 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.' "
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" I went to 11 different schools. It was a fantastic adventure, but I was incredibly sensitive and needed a bit more stability. "
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" 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. "
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" I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new. "
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" For men, it's about finding the perfect shoe or the perfect pants that will last you through the years. That's how I want to shop: sustainable, classic, great quality. "
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" I struggle with myself every day - I am a lonesome person. I talk to my family - and I connect to some people deeply along the way - but I am a restless soul. Singing is the most immediate relief. "
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" I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice, but it's something that grabs you, and the songs are so good. "
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" The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening. "
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" 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. "
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Tribe
Everything
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" 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. "
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Work
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" I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie. "
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Sake
Being
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" I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black. "
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Uncomfortable
Black
" People comment on how you look; it's so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else. "
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Listen
Comment
Look
" I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that. "
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" 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. "
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Late
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" 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. "
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" Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums. "
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World
Instrument
" 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. "
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Doctor
Sick
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" I'm interested in a lot of different sounds and types of music. "
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Music
" I will never get to Lady Gaga's status. That's not something I want. "
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" 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. "
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" I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me. "
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Dolphins
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" I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India. "
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" I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression. "
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Thought
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" Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me. "
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" There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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