Lauren Mayberry Quotes

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also an extension of how the audience would like to see themselves.

'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.

I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.

If I don't relate to a song, I won't sing it. The thing is that if I wrote it, I'm always going to relate to it.

The reason we fall in love with certain music and writing is we connect with it on a very personal level.

A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own two feet and still serve the movie. A great soundtrack is all about communicating with the audience, but we all try to bring something extra to the movie that is not entirely evident on screen.