Lauv Quotes

I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and my style, even down to what I wear.

I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums.

I write about everything that happens in my life, whether or not the songs actually are released or not.

Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

I write chronologically in my life, so whatever's going on, I write about it. Usually, that's when I feel the most cohesive body of work is formed. I got to live this crazy life, I got to write about it, and now I've got this record that I'm really proud of, too. It's not done, but when I put it out, it's gonna be good.

I have very strong feelings about a lot of things. I am sometimes reluctant to come straight to the forefront with it. You know, first and foremost, I'm a musician. I'm a songwriter.

I think the range of my life shows in my work.

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

As I showed the world my art, my heart, I wasn't just an actress. I was actually an artist. And that was my transformation.

'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was just stuff that I was dealing with.

I think every song I do is specifically tailored to what I would say and how I approach situations.