20 Quotes by Lapsley

I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.

I don't feel like I have to prove a point and say that I love the kind of music that I make.

I think my songs serve a purpose in a very therapeutic way to do with relationships, very different to do with my opinions on world affairs.

I was a very closed person before, and I wouldn't say how I felt about things, and now I've kind of opened myself up. And it's scary.

So many people have gone to music production schools for years and years, and they've wanted this their whole entire life, and part of me feels like I've kind of cheated that a bit because I'm not grade A on piano, and I don't know a lot about production. But I do what I do.

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

I never started learning instruments with the hope of having a career in it. It was more kind of I quite enjoy messing around and writing or playing with the family and stuff like that.

The first time I'd ever had a go at production or recording, I just recorded in my room. I just put it on Soundcloud because I have family abroad, and I wanted to show them, 'Oh, hi, Uncle Carl, here's some music that I've done,' or whatever.

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'