I'm very clearly a girl that spends a lot of time on the Internet, just like every other sad girl. — Laufey Girl Copy Share Image
Love is the one thing that everybody goes through, but nobody really has cracked the code, right? — Laufey Code Copy Share Image
I like to say I listened to three genres of music growing up: classical, jazz and Taylor Swift. — Laufey Genres Copy Share Image
Jazz is all about that. It's bending things and breaking away from what's on the page and improvising. — Laufey About Copy Share Image
I always had a very specific way or style of singing that definitely felt like it was something from an older time. — Laufey Singing Copy Share Image
I never thought that people would look at me and try to copy my style, but I love it so much. — Laufey Fashion Copy Share Image
With the kind of music I make, I make very individualistic choices. — Laufey Choices Copy Share Image
I always hope that my music is a gateway for people to get to know jazz. — Laufey Always Copy Share Image
If anything, I thought I would go the conservatory route, practice cello and try to get into the best orchestra I could,… — Laufey Best Copy Share Image
A large portion of my audience is younger - audiences that would primarily listen to pop music otherwise - so the fact… — Laufey Music Copy Share Image
I think it's always so magical when there's some sort of thing like that where an artist contributes musically, but also has… — Laufey Always Copy Share Image
My whole life has been in classical music, I've been trained to become the best musician possible, play the piece the best,… — Laufey Best Copy Share Image
The support and scholarships I received as a child have directly led to the career I have now. It's been a lifelong… — Laufey Children Copy Share Image
Bossa nova is about how you can express yourself without being too loud. It's a quiet way of singing, almost spoken. That… — Laufey Express yourself Copy Share Image
I mean, my dream would be to act in something, or even do kind of a guest role, and couple that with… — Laufey Dream 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… — Laufey Beautiful Copy Share Image
TikTok gives an artist a voice. I'm very careful to be very authentic on there - everything I do comes from me,… — Laufey Art 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 Art 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 Experience Copy Share Image
Most of my friends' experience has been everything in between - all the confusion and the questions and the 'Oh, am I… — Laufey Experience Copy Share Image
I would sing in public, and everyone would be like, 'She's got the voice of a divorced woman in the body of… — Laufey Body Copy Share Image
I knew I was half Chinese, but Iceland is so homogenous that I wasn't able to identify with the Asian part of… — Laufey Asian Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, what are genres? I've spent my whole life trying to fit into some sort of box.… — Laufey Classical music Copy Share Image
When I started out, people were always asking me, 'Who do you want to be like?' I had no idea what to… — Laufey Always Copy Share Image
Iceland is so small; classical musicians play on pop projects and pop musicians play with jazz musicians. — Laufey Classical music Copy Share Image
I'll take any opportunity to kind of put my own spin on a jazz standard. — Laufey Jazz Copy Share Image
I hope I'm doing my part in making jazz and classical music more accessible! — Laufey Accessible Copy Share Image
I never look back after finishing a song and think, 'Damn, why did I do that?' — Laufey Back Copy Share Image
Growing up, I really struggled with finding a group of people that I really understood and that understood me. The fact that… — Laufey Finding Copy Share Image
I went to Berklee for college: a good musical training ground, but there's no direct line between that and the music industry. — Laufey College Copy Share Image