Lapsley Quotes

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

I don't try to be someone I'm not - I've always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound.

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

Just stick to what you feel you sing best at, no matter what it is.

My style just is what it is and it's pretty obvious what it is. People seem to like it.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.

I quite like being who I am.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

When I stopped hiding who I am, I started writing hits.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

Don't worry what people say or what people think. Be yourself.

I just be comfortable in my own skin; I might wear anything.

I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you - all the way live.

I think the biggest thing I've learned is to not really worry what people will say or think about what you wear. You have to wear what feels good on you, what you feel comfortable in. And I've just learned to not really care.

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

I think so much of what we learn when we get older is being comfortable in our own skin and learning what looks good, and not being so trend-centric.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

Be yourself. Unapologetically.

I just am who I am.