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" 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. "
Lapsley
Person
School
Why
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Play
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" 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. "
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Little Things
Talent
School
" Collaborating on lyrics has never worked for me. "
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Lyrics
Me
Never
" My whole career will be about sad things. Happy songs about nightclubs and shots? That's not me. "
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Happy
Career
Will
" 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. "
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Enjoy
Hope
Learning
" 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. "
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Old
Piano
Years
" 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. "
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Go
Done
Family
" 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. "
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Know
People
Life
" Sometimes I worry I've said too much. But it's easier to write about things that are fresh in your mind. "
Lapsley
Said
Mind
Worry
" 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. "
Lapsley
Voice
My Own
Listen
" 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. "
Lapsley
Way
Opinions
Purpose
" I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing. "
Lapsley
Scary
Talk
Sing
" 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. "
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Stage
Think
People
" I'm quite an independent person. "
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Independent
Person
Quite
" 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! "
Lapsley
Go
Music
Jungle
" 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. "
Lapsley
Scary
Person
Now
" I don't feel like I have to prove a point and say that I love the kind of music that I make. "
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Love
Kind
Prove
" I'm more than just the face at the front of a band. "
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More
Face
Band