Lykke Li
Lykke Li
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson, known as Lykke Li, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and model. Her music often blends elements of indie pop, dream pop and electronic; instruments in her songs include violins, synthesisers, tambourines, trumpets, saxophones, cellos, and African drums. Li possesses the vocal range of a soprano. Li's debut album, Youth Novels, was released in 2008. Her second album, Wounded Rhymes, was released in 2011, followed by her third album, I Never Learn, in 2014...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth18 March 1986
CityYstad, Sweden
CountrySweden
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hate the fact you always feel like you have to be going somewhere, like the end destination is to be finished, or to be happy. But the truth is a lot of us are completely lost, and we don’t know, and that is also a state of mind, to not know who you are and where you’re going.
If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.
I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic
I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.
I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.
I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice but it's something that grabs you and the songs are so good.
I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.
Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it
Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage. Pitchfork: Whe