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Lights

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 11, 1987

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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