Top 162 Quotes & Sayings by Lights

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Lights Poxleitner-Bokan, known mononymously as Lights, is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter. She is known for singles "Drive My Soul", "February Air", "Ice", "Second Go", "Toes", "My Boots" and "Up We Go", which have charted within the top ninety on the Canadian Hot 100. She was awarded the 2009 Juno Award for New Artist of the Year and two 2009 Astral Media Radio awards during Canadian Music Week.

Canadian - Musician | Born: April 11, 1987

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The way things are today, people need to talk about mental health and need to be open about it.

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Love is so much more than gender: You fall in love with a person.

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I think Warped Tour's bringing something special to me.

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I used to play music at home, and now I'm playing for thousands of people.

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An upbeat song, for example, means one thing, but when you hear it with really vibey, mellow ambience around it, suddenly the same words may mean something else. Music is so powerful that way: It dictates and soundtracks our moods.

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Nothing's handed to you on a silver platter. Everything takes work, no matter how many records you put out.

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I love getting online and looking at people's responses to things and communicating with everyone.

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I think there's this standard in our society that when we become a mother, we just become a mother, and that's all you are. That's an amazing thing, but I think you're doing your child a disservice by not following your dreams either. I work really hard to make sure that I'm chasing all the things I always dreamed of.

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Games have fascinated me my whole life, starting with 'PacMan' on my uncle's PC. I moved up to classic Super Nintendo and then on to N64, and then XBox, DS and 'WoW.'

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When I'm at home, I get what I need to get done during the day and reward myself with a little 'WoW' time at night. Some people read a book before they go to bed.

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We need to re-evaluate what we market to our kids.

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I can't be like, 'This week I'm going to be a musician, and next week I'm going to be a mom.' It has to be a little bit of everything, every day, all of the time.

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Having toured a lot really influences some of the decisions you make in the studio - is this part anthemic enough for people to want to sing to it at a show? is this part dynamic enough? Is this drum beat 'arena' enough? You think about it a lot when you are creating, for sure.

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I don't know what I did with time before I had a kid.

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There is something empowering about being a female warrior to me.

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Our down time at home consists of hikes and video games and trying to cook - because we are awful at it.

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You can get a rut where you think you need to create something that sounds like a certain thing - especially with pop music.

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Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination.

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It just burns my heart that there's such a massive discrepancy in the number of male producers in the industry, versus female producers.

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It was so freeing to branch out and work with people like Josh Dun of 21 Pilots who played on 'Savage' and 'Almost Had Me.'

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I've grown in a lot of ways - as a musician, as performer, as a songwriter.

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I would love to draw for 'Scarlet Witch,' it's a Marvel title.

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I find that when you grow and evolve with music, the music understands you, and vice versa - whether or not the creator of that music knows.

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It's hard to be a credible musician as a girl with a decent face. Which sucks. I'm always gonna push to make a record that represents what I like.

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Getting to be a musician for ten years is very different from being a musician for a year. You get different stories, and have a different connection with the fans after ten years.

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I think one of the biggest lessons I continue to learn is having humility and being thankful for what you have because everything's a grind and it doesn't get easier.

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If I met the right girl, I could easily fall in love.

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I'm very into superhero culture and stuff like that, so I always think on very epic terms.

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I sleep in a bunk bed because my studio's under it. It's like a loft bed.

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I've never been this massive artist, but I've always had this really wicked cool fanbase - people that really dive in, know every single B-side, and cosplay characters at our shows.

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It's nice to pretend we could lead a normal life!

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There are times where you don't think you can be one of those strong women. You're not one of the leaders right? But that doesn't mean you're not. And that doesn't mean you're not a trailblazer.

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Pop music is actually a challenging genre. Not only do you have to be artistically expressive, but you also have to do that in a very strict format. I've always liked that challenge, but it's very easy to slip into something non-creative. You just have to stay inspired all the time.

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When I was younger it was a lot of quantity over quality. Just writing, writing, writing. Hundreds of songs. Now it's fewer songs. If I write 10 songs I believe 80 percent of them are good and gonna be used.

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It is really hard to write something high-energy and upbeat on acoustic guitar.

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I wish, to be honest, that there were more myths about me. I wish I was more of a mythical person, and that then I'd have myths to dispel.

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Now that I have a daughter, I notice what's marketed to young women.

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Young girls aren't marketed science-y stuff, or techy stuff, or even musical stuff.

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I hate listening to things quietly. If I'm going to listen to something and fully enjoy it, I want the volume all the way up. That, for me, is a good immersive experience.

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Role models are important and if you see it you can be it.

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After I had a kid, I value every minute of time that I have alone and I don't take it for granted anymore.

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A word can change so much depending on how you say it, or how you sing it.

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Music has always been a visual thing to me, so writing and drawing the 'Skin&Earth' comics, which tie cohesively with the music, was an obvious move for me as an artist.

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I'm kind of obsessed with laser guns.

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I think that as you evolve as a person and an artist, your creative process evolves and changes, too.

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Like everybody, you get nights where you feel completely depressed. You start thinking about all the bad things and think about the glass half empty - instead of half full. There's no explanation for it.

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I was in bands all through my youth. Things started out more acoustic and then piano ballads. Then R&B followed by sappy pop music and then rock, punk and heavy metal.

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There are no rules. And there are no boundaries in terms of where your imagination can take you. That is so necessary for music.

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What puts me in the perspective of the power of a song is listening to it at full volume.

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The comic hobbyists world is so passionate about the details and the lore and the more you get into that, the more interesting it is for you.

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When I had my baby, it really freed my mind. No matter how well you do or how unsuccessful you are, there's still somebody who thinks you're the best in the world.

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I can really identify with the content that I read in comics.

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You should write songs about what you feel, but you can't write in such a way like it's a diary entry. You should write it in a way that people understand in their lives.

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I got signed to a development deal when I was 15. That fell through after about a year when the company merged with another label. Then I got picked up by Sony publishing. So I was writing professionally from 16 to 18. Then I started making my own records.

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I don't sweat the little stuff anymore. The little worries, I just don't have time for them anymore.

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You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart.

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I don't have musical theory or great chord knowledge, but what I have got me where I am.

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You need to enjoy what you're doing in order to do something good. You can't force it.

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One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself anymore.

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I remember when I would write a song as a kid, I would also write out on paper what the drums would do, what the bass would do, and what the vocals would be doing.

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Top 162 Quotes & Sayings by Lights

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