Lauren Mayberry Quotes

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

I'm always thinking about songs and how I can sing a song that would resonate with my voice, my persona. I want it to be a pleasant experience that's not just about hearing my voice. I remember some singers whose voices were so pretty, it didn't matter what they sang - you loved it.

I think people really like my voice, the way I sing, the things I put in a song.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't be the least bit uncomfortable giving it to them. People want songwriters to tell them how they think and how they feel. That's what a song is. That's what I want to hear in a song.

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voice - so I do consider it an opera.

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.

I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.

I like those kinds of songs that have details that you remember and that have stories that mean something and that open up into different levels philosophically. I like those kinds of movies, and I like those kinds of books.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film.

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.

I am an open book through the songwriting.

When I hear a beat that makes me want to tell a story, then that's what I'm going to say.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

I like the purity of telling stories now because not a lot of people are telling stories in their music. I wanna tell my specific story: what I see right now.

I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.