Lapsley Quotes

Part of my therapy is to write.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

We always trained never to really talk about things and get it off our chests but I think now everybody is more open about it.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

If something is on my mind, I've got to get it out. I can't front, for lack of a better term.

Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.

Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

All my songs are where I am.

I love to cry. It's great.

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Acting is therapeutic. I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.