Lauv Quotes

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.

The bands that do well don't get caught up in fads; they are just true to themselves.

I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.

I try to be me to the utmost.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

I try to be myself without being anything different.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don't try to tell anybody else's story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn't, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.

I just want a lady who can be themselves, it's not a cookie cutter criteria that a woman should fall under.

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

To me, being real is being yourself. You know, that's whether you're a pop artist or whatever.

Me, I'm trying to sound like me. I don't be trying to sound like somebody.

I can't put anything out that's not me.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

Artists can be themselves. They don't have to pretend to be somebody they're not.

I'm trying to be as real as I can and I'm being myself. I'm not gonna create an act.

I don't feel like I'm a character; I certainly don't feel like I'm a gimmick. I am who I am.

I don't pretend to be anybody else but me.