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I always loved performing and being on stage.
My dream was never to become this unattainable star.
That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.
I don't think I would live very long if I was a rock star.
Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.
I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.
I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour.
I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.
The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.
The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
I've never grown into loving someone. It's, like, either right away or slowly sinks in.
The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.
There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.
When I'm angry, like, if someone gets me really upset, whatever comes into my head, I scream it.
When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'
A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.
I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.
I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.
I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.
It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!
I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.
I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.
I want people to FEEL something... If it's sadness, anger, horny, happiness whatever! As long as it doesn't just pass you by.
We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.
My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.
I thought 'Twinkies' was just a word for 'cookies,' not a specific thing. They kind of scare me a little bit because they last forever.
I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.
I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.
I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.
In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.
Everything that has to do with sex is somehow... it's the best thing in the world, and it's still the one thing people don't want you to talk about.
I've had to learn how to say no to things, and have people around me that don't push me too hard, because I'll go until I just crash. I don't have a stop button.
I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.
There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.
For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.
It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you're good, that annoys me. Have confidence!
When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.
Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.
I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.
I'd love to come to New Zealand!! I've been to Australia a few times - I'm well aware it's not the same country. I've heard from people it's beautiful - great diving, music and no scary animals.
I fight the same way as my dad! I've picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.
The very first song I ever wrote was a song called 'Crazy' when I was 11 or 12 with my best girlfriends - we had a girl band. It was about loving a guy who everyone else thought you were crazy for being into.
I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.'
I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.
If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.
A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.
Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the lyric and rhythm, kind of. Sometimes it's a track I fall I love with... but writing my own songs, I rarely write on tracks.
I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.
A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?
I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and you polish to make it fit more people or to not be too vulgar or make sure of, 'Can this really play on the radio?' And I like not doing that.