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

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" 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 love exploring the more complicated side of love. I feel like I've always gravitated toward that. "

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

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

" In day-to-day life, there's so much that's calculated: so many fake, surface-level interactions that don't amount to anything. "

" I think a lot of pop music is escapist. "

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

" I could never write a proper party song. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I love nostalgia. "

" 'Lauv' comes from the Latvian word for lion, and my mom's side of the family is from Latvia - it's a place I've been probably 15 times or more. I'm also a Leo, and my real name, Ari, means lion. "

" 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 miss the energy of New York City and being able to step out of my apartment and see so much unique culture all the time around me without having to seek it out. In L.A., I have to sort of seek out everything I'm trying to do. It makes it less spontaneous. "

" With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff, all the songs that I've kept to myself have always been me writing about my life. "

" I'm trying to basically just focus on sharing everything that I was feeling with other people, so I can hopefully inspire other people to free themselves. "

" Growing up, I played in different bands and did a lot of self-booked touring and traveling around, and my sister was driving us on tour, and we're playing for nobody and literally begging my friends that I went to high school with to buy tickets to our shows. "

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

" '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. "

" Everybody in L.A. is a songwriter, producer, actor, creative. For some reason, you're supposed to go to a bar and all hang out and act like you like each other. There is a lot of fake stuff that goes on. "

" Any one thing can get in the way of you and your brain being comfortable and being inspired. It's the difference between a really big song and a song that never existed. "

" In a way, the traditional album is no longer as important as it used to be. But at the same time, I don't want to be the kind of artist who just releases one song after another. "

" For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic. "

" I feel like Drake could literally put out anything - like, the sound of seagulls over a beat - and it could be the Number One song on Spotify. "

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

" At the end of the day, we all want to fall in love. "

" 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. "

" I think streaming, in general, is democratising music in general. "