Silver Lining' is a love song about being able to set your true personality free when you fall in love. — Laufey Copy Share Image
I never look back after finishing a song and think, 'Damn, why did I do that?' — Laufey Copy Share Image
I'm breaking so many rules every single day, and I think that's where you make good music. — Laufey Copy Share Image
I'm just going to keep making the music I want and hope that it reaches as many ears as possible. — Laufey Copy Share Image
Jazz is all about that. It's bending things and breaking away from what's on the page and improvising. — Laufey Copy Share Image
Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do… — Laufey Copy Share Image
With 'Goddess,' I think the song itself tells such a strong story. And for the music video, we really wanted to do… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I think jazz is a bit gatekept. Personally, I think that everyone has space in them to enjoy jazz and jazz-adjacent music.… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Sometimes you put a song on TikTok and it does well because it's visually stimulating or it has a hooky lyric, but… — Laufey Copy Share Image
The fact that the jazz and classical worlds seem to struggle with the idea of an artist being both commercially successful and… — Laufey Copy Share Image
That's why I always strive to make timeless, almost a bit cinematic music, because I guess I was looking for an escape… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I have to live to write. But I try to discipline myself into writing on the spot as well. I think it's… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Jazz songs have always been quite literal because many of them are taken from musical theater and you only have a couple… — Laufey Copy Share Image
You know, I think so much about relatability when it comes to songwriting, and this experience of being in the limelight isn't… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Everything I record, I end up putting out. You hear about artists with hundreds of songs in their archive, and I have… — Laufey Copy Share Image
Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of… — Laufey Copy Share
I knew I was half Chinese, but Iceland is so homogenous that I wasn't able to identify with the Asian part of myself. Even… — Laufey Copy Share
A large portion of my audience is younger - audiences that would primarily listen to pop music otherwise - so the fact that they're… — Laufey Copy Share
Love is the one thing that everybody goes through, but nobody really has cracked the code, right? — Laufey Copy Share
I think it's always so magical when there's some sort of thing like that where an artist contributes musically, but also has a role… — Laufey Copy Share
Iceland is so small; classical musicians play on pop projects and pop musicians play with jazz musicians. — Laufey Copy Share
It is a funny thing to step on stage and wear beautiful clothing and lots of makeup and stand in front of thousands of… — Laufey Copy Share
At the end of the day, what are genres? I've spent my whole life trying to fit into some sort of box. Am I… — Laufey Copy Share
I'm very clearly a girl that spends a lot of time on the Internet, just like every other sad girl. — Laufey Copy Share
TikTok gives an artist a voice. I'm very careful to be very authentic on there - everything I do comes from me, nobody ever… — Laufey Copy Share
I never thought that people would look at me and try to copy my style, but I love it so much. — Laufey Copy Share
I mean, my dream would be to act in something, or even do kind of a guest role, and couple that with writing something… — Laufey Copy Share
I always had a very specific way or style of singing that definitely felt like it was something from an older time. — Laufey Copy Share
