Lights Quotes:

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. Because if you stay in your comfort zone, you would never do the things that you need to do.

Topics: Successful, Order, Comfort

I praised those who find within themselves their own song to create hope.

Topics: Song

Don't let the romance die, remember one thing that's going right in the sea of things that aren't.

Topics: Sea, Romance, Remember

We are built with a passion in our heart for the things that we're meant to do.

Topics: Passion, Heart

YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married

Topics: Song, Writing, Heart, Happily Married

You just keep going. Nothing that isn't beautiful is worth slowing down for.

Topics: Beautiful, Slow Down, Keep Going

The best part about getting knocked down is standing back up knowing what you didn't before.

Topics: Knowing, Knocked Down, Standing

So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.

Topics: Needs, Acoustics

Sometimes hate hurts more than love feels good. Just have to realize it's because we're more used to love. Let the haters stumble by.

Topics: Hurt, Hate, Feel Good

Love each other, even strangers. Nothing in the world matters more.

Topics: World, Matter, Stranger

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

Topics: Strong, Men, Brave

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.

Topics: Sexy, Song, Writing

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.

Topics: Forgiving, Humans, Err Is Human

You grow into everything you hate about yourself, over time.

Topics: Hate, About Yourself, Grows

Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.

source: - Song: Face Up, Album: The Listening, 2009

Topics: Ends, More Time, Grows

Sometimes I remind myself of all the things that make me feel so blessed. And then I remind myself to remind myself more often.

Topics: Blessed, Sometimes, Feels

If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy.

Topics: Enough, Make You Happy

You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.

source: - Song: Lions!, Album: The Listening, 2009

Topics: Safe, Feels, Unafraid

Honestly, if you don’t fit in, then you’re probably doing the right thing.

Topics: Fit, Honestly, Ifs

Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Hands, Space, People

It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

Topics: Trying, World, Changed

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Like You, Should, Feels

If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Art, Trying, Different

One of the things I've really realized over the past number of years is that you can't plan - you really don't know what's going to happen. All the plans I made for myself all turned out really differently in the end, so I just go with it.

source: - Source: coogradio.com

Topics: Past, Years, Numbers

It's funny how you can look back in life and there are all these 'if's' - if this hadn't happened would I have been here? If I hadn't done this would I have ended up talking to you? It's funny how life is seriously just a bunch of those moments.

Topics: Talking, Looks, Done

A career is a progression of ups and downs, how you deal with them and how you bounce back.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Careers, Progression, Deals

Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Powerful, Feel Good, Feelings, Sexiness

This world is a little dark, and I am LIGHTS.

Topics: Dark, Light, World

I don’t know what’s gonna happen in 30 years, and that’s…awesome.

Topics: Years, Happens, Knows

It’s funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it’s that life changes, but you as a person don’t or maybe we adjust, but don’t actually change.

Topics: Life Changing, Things Change, Persons

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

source: - Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 11, 2009.

Topics: Jobs, Hobbies, Hard

Since becoming a mother, I'd say it's more so affected my general outlook on things. I'm less worried about everything. Less scared to make those numbers that people think are standard or less scared to create something that maybe I don't think people are going to like, because it's all about if I like it. I need to be happy.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Mother, Thinking, Numbers, Becoming A Mother

Speak out your mind and your heart, you won’t be bored.

Topics: Heart, Speaks Out, Bored

I've always gravitated naturally towards a little bit of a heavier thing, having been in punk bands and metal bands before I ever got into pop.

Topics: Band, Littles, Punk, Metal Band

I'd love to develop a game and make the music for it. I'd love to do something based on Captain Lights. Who knows if that'll ever happen, but I'd love to do it.

source: - Source: www.ign.com

Topics: Light, Games, Captains

It doesn't matter if you have something greater to say per say, just enjoy what you're doing.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Matter, Enjoy, Greater

All the collaborations that I've done that I'm really proud of with a lot of incredible Canadian artists and beyond, that's when art comes together and becomes something really special.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Art, Special, Together

We're all in different scenarios, we all make mistakes, we all break stuff, but we're not perfect, we couldn't [be] - it doesn't matter what you build.

Topics: Mistake, Perfect, Matter

I think that once you go through childbirth, you can do anything. It's like Wow! I can conquer the world now!

source: - Source: coogradio.com

Topics: Thinking, Conquer The World, Wow

That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.

source: - Source: coogradio.com

Topics: Art, Games, Worry

It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That's why I've put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form.

source: - Source: www.ign.com

Topics: Song, Guitar, Play

I'm such a fan of anime and manga to this day, but I never really like got to know all the characters and everything, so I don't think I'd be able to pick one.

Topics: Character, Thinking, Anime

The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Block, Insecure, Sight

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

source: - Source: coogradio.com

Topics: Writing, People, Way

I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Mother, Becoming, Ever After, Becoming A Mother

If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.

source: - Source: coogradio.com

Topics: Moving, What Matters, Doing What You Love

Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like...it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.

source: - Source: coogradio.com

Topics: Self, Advice, Littles

Every day is just a time to learn about yourself and learn about the world and that's how I feel all the time.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: World, About Yourself, Feels

I've never been somebody who blew up overnight, I've never been somebody who everyone talked about all at once, but I've had this really cool slow build.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Really Cool

I need to be happy. I need to set that example for my daughter so that she goes into something she loves, not because other people want her to do something. It's a good feeling, it's freeing.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Daughter, People, Feelings

I never had good hair growing up - just had the worst nothing hair - and until I started being rough with it, even 'til this day I'm actually pretty rough with it, and ever since I've been like that it's been pretty darn good to me.

Topics: Growing Up, Hair, Worst, Good Hair

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are like my musical family, my second family - they took me in and taught me what a good song is.

Topics: Song, Musical, Sixteen, Second Family

It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.

Topics: Different, Branches, Genre, Different Genres

Sitting in a studio with Oli [Sykes], or going back and forth with Adam [Young] on his tracks, it's so much more fun than something really structured and put together.

Topics: Fun, Track, Together

My hair's actually really thin, but I just throw some hairspray into it and make sure it's been a couple days dirty, and then it goes the direction that you want it, literally!

Topics: Couple, Dirty, Hair, Hairspray

I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.

source: - Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 11, 2009.

Topics: Games, Fans, Firsts, Shooter

I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there.

source: - Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 11, 2009.

Topics: Couple, Play, Anxiety, Nervousness

I was getting really influenced by some darker, heavier electro stuff, like Crystal Castles. And I was listening to some dub-step elements, so I thought this was going to be the natural progression, taking my soft melodies and my soft voice and marrying it with something a little heavier.

Topics: Voice, Listening, Littles

I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing.

source: - Source: coogradio.com

Topics: Song, Writing, Artist

I think a lot of people feel like they need other people to help identify themselves, whether that's friends or relationships or whatever that may be. But it's you who identifies yourself and you need to take time to do that.

source: - Source: thelala.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Needs

It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.

source: - Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 11, 2009.

Topics: Song, People, Feelings, New Songs

I collect Wonder Woman - from comics to paraphernalia, and I even have a tattoo of her on my back. I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan!

source: - Source: www.ign.com

Topics: Tattoo, Fans, Wonder Woman

As far as depths of geekiness... I have more friends in World of Warcraft than I do in real life!

source: - Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. November 11, 2009.

Topics: Real, Depth, World, World Of Warcraft

One girl, actually, in the UK — it was a really small show in Wales — a girl came up to me and said that because of one of my songs she was still alive. She’d decided not to commit suicide. It was a really emotional moment.

Topics: Girl, Suicide, Song