I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.

Lapsley

Categorized in : Go Talk Singing Stage

Sometimes before I go on stage, I think about how people can be so judgmental and forget they're the ones who bought your album; they're the ones that are singing along.

singing forget sometimes people

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

parents me you girl

I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all girls school, so there were always little things going on, but it wasn't really until I was 17 that I did a proper performance. My first big one was Glastonbury, before I was signed.

little-things talent guitar song

I prefer to listen to a lot of male singers rather than females. Sometimes I find it a bit too shrill. I even find my own voice a bit too high.

high my-own voice sometimes

My whole career will be about sad things. Happy songs about nightclubs and shots? That's not me.

will me sad happy

Sometimes I worry I've said too much. But it's easier to write about things that are fresh in your mind.

your mind worry sometimes

Collaborating on lyrics has never worked for me.

lyrics never me collaborating

I'm more than just the face at the front of a band.

face more just band

The reason I can play loads of instruments is because I kept giving up and trying another one.

giving-up i-can trying giving

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.

know me creative school

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

feel prove music love

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.

think purpose way world

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.

person say things myself

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.

me music life people

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.

old me guitar mom

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.

enjoy learning family hope

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.

uncle family music time

I'm quite an independent person.

quite person independent

Maybe I'll want to go to Iceland and see the volcanoes, or attend some lectures, or go to Mexico and go to the jungle. On my own. With nothing whatsoever to do with music!

nothing jungle my-own music