Lights Quotes

As far as depths of geekiness... I have more friends in World of Warcraft than I do in real life!

One girl, actually, in the UK — it was a really small show in Wales — a girl came up to me and said that because of one of my songs she was still alive. She’d decided not to commit suicide. It was a really emotional moment.

It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.

It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That's why I've put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form.

The best part about getting knocked down is standing back up knowing what you didn't before.

I was getting really influenced by some darker, heavier electro stuff, like Crystal Castles. And I was listening to some dub-step elements, so I thought this was going to be the natural progression, taking my soft melodies and my soft voice and marrying it with something a little heavier.

It’s funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it’s that life changes, but you as a person don’t or maybe we adjust, but don’t actually change.

So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.

I praised those who find within themselves their own song to create hope.

I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.

We're all in different scenarios, we all make mistakes, we all break stuff, but we're not perfect, we couldn't [be] - it doesn't matter what you build.

I never had good hair growing up - just had the worst nothing hair - and until I started being rough with it, even 'til this day I'm actually pretty rough with it, and ever since I've been like that it's been pretty darn good to me.

Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else.

The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.

YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married

That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.

You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.

Sometimes I remind myself of all the things that make me feel so blessed. And then I remind myself to remind myself more often.

I think a lot of people feel like they need other people to help identify themselves, whether that's friends or relationships or whatever that may be. But it's you who identifies yourself and you need to take time to do that.

I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.

It doesn't matter if you have something greater to say per say, just enjoy what you're doing.

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are like my musical family, my second family - they took me in and taught me what a good song is.

Sitting in a studio with Oli [Sykes], or going back and forth with Adam [Young] on his tracks, it's so much more fun than something really structured and put together.

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy.

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.

I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing.

You just keep going. Nothing that isn't beautiful is worth slowing down for.

Honestly, if you don’t fit in, then you’re probably doing the right thing.

Since becoming a mother, I'd say it's more so affected my general outlook on things. I'm less worried about everything. Less scared to make those numbers that people think are standard or less scared to create something that maybe I don't think people are going to like, because it's all about if I like it. I need to be happy.

Don't let the romance die, remember one thing that's going right in the sea of things that aren't.

All the collaborations that I've done that I'm really proud of with a lot of incredible Canadian artists and beyond, that's when art comes together and becomes something really special.

It's funny how you can look back in life and there are all these 'if's' - if this hadn't happened would I have been here? If I hadn't done this would I have ended up talking to you? It's funny how life is seriously just a bunch of those moments.

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

Speak out your mind and your heart, you won’t be bored.

If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.

I'd love to develop a game and make the music for it. I'd love to do something based on Captain Lights. Who knows if that'll ever happen, but I'd love to do it.

One of the things I've really realized over the past number of years is that you can't plan - you really don't know what's going to happen. All the plans I made for myself all turned out really differently in the end, so I just go with it.

Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like...it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.

A career is a progression of ups and downs, how you deal with them and how you bounce back.

I don’t know what’s gonna happen in 30 years, and that’s…awesome.

I need to be happy. I need to set that example for my daughter so that she goes into something she loves, not because other people want her to do something. It's a good feeling, it's freeing.

I think that once you go through childbirth, you can do anything. It's like Wow! I can conquer the world now!

You grow into everything you hate about yourself, over time.

My hair's actually really thin, but I just throw some hairspray into it and make sure it's been a couple days dirty, and then it goes the direction that you want it, literally!

Every day is just a time to learn about yourself and learn about the world and that's how I feel all the time.

If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.