Lauren Mayberry Quotes

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

I do what I feel I know how to do and don't do things that I don't. I'm a product of my sensibility.

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.