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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Lykke Li

I Am

Better

Heart

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

" 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. "

" The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown. "

" I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet. "

" I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about. "

Lykke Li

You

Woman

" 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. "

" 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'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.' "

" Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating. "

" 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. "

" I went to 11 different schools. It was a fantastic adventure, but I was incredibly sensitive and needed a bit more stability. "

Lykke Li

Stability

Different

" My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance. "

" 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. "

Lykke Li

People

Twilight

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love listening to demos. They're so raw. "

" 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. "

" The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything. "

" 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 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 knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs. "

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

Lykke Li

Here

Feel

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "