Quotes

[on performing in Inuvik] I was there in January in the dead of winter, to do an acoustic show in an igloo church. One of the things I remember most is, technically the sun had returned after thirty days of night a few days before that, but it had been cloudy and no one had seen it yet. It's only up for about an hour or two, and it's like a permanent sunset. That day it was minus forty and the sun was this orange ball on the horizon. And everyone's faces - the way they looked at the sun for the first time that year - was really special.

Pop is hard to write, and I think a lot of people underestimate the pop songwriting process. It's very much of a structured format, and to maintain creative excitement within those boundaries is a cool challenge: how can we write a song so simply and so beautifully and so powerfully that by the second chorus everyone can sing it? I've always liked that.

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

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

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

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

[Everybody Breaks A Glass from Siberia (2011)] We all forget to sleep and crash at someone's feet. Everybody skips a beat. We let the chances pass, the few we held so fast, everybody breaks a glass.

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

[2008 interview] Lights has always been my nickname for starters and it does come out of my last name. It's kind of what people have been calling me for so long and it totally explains what my music is about, it's about lightening people's moods and stuff. I've always loved writing L's and my real name does not start with an L.

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.

[Lions! from The Listening (2009)] You don't have to feel safe to feel unafraid.

No matter what you do in life, make sure it is done through love. Love is what's going to carry you through everything.