Quotes from Lauv

I write a lot of sad songs!

I'm super-into sappy movies like 'La La Land' and 'Midnight in Paris.'

Ever since I visited Paris when I was younger, the sappy side of me really wanted to write a song about it someday.

I think everybody goes through that, especially... being in love for the first time. Some people, they're lucky enough that that ends up being who they're with for the rest of their lives, and sometimes it doesn't work out.

Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it's also the most satisfying thing.

I love bodies of work and albums and stuff like that.

I do feel like I'm a little too much of a bummer sometimes.

I put out my first song, 'The Other,' in 2015 just on Soundcloud. It was always my most popular song but never really went far in a mainstream way. Then, a couple years after it came out, I watched it go from 8 million to, like, 100 million.

I think a lot of pop music is escapist.

Living in L.A. has been really good for me as a creator and musician.

All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.

People come up to me with tattoos of my lyrics!

'I Met You When I Was 18' is a collection of songs, a story about moving to New York City when I was 18 and falling in love for the first time. A story about trying to figure out your own identity whilst being deeply intertwined with someone else's.

I could never write a proper party song.

For a lot of people going through their first love, you're both still figuring yourself out.

All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done.

Kids can tell if you're being genuine or not.

I am realising this now more as I grow up: that I never really felt connected to locations. In some sense, I always kind of felt a little lost in that I never had any hometown pride. While I experience a lot different places and experiences, I always felt a little detached.

I went from playing for nobody and having awkward experiences at award shows to now being all over the place playing sold-out shows for people who know all of the words.

I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out.

I sort of feel that I have to constantly be really, really honest with the way I feel, and I have to get that out.

'Chasing Fire' is about fighting for something that's already over. It's the beginning of the end. It's desperation. It's grand. But it's hopeless.

It's tough to know what I'm going to write about. I never really know until it starts happening.