Lorde Quotes

Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means.

I actually love Twitter and Instagram. I do think it's so strange to think that 20 years ago, people would never have known personal stuff about musicians and actors, but I like it. As long as I don't obsessively overshare, it's OK. And when I do overshare, it's just, like, me saying, 'I've got $7 in my bank account!'

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

Maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks.

You're the only friend I need
Sharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs get tough
But that will never be enough
You're the only friend I need
Sharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs get tough
But that will never be enough

And nothing's wrong when nothing's true
But I live in a hologram with you.

I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

We might be hollow, but we're brave

A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.

I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad.

We've both got a million bad habits to kick, not sleeping is one.
We're biting our nails, you're biting my lip, I'm biting my tongue.

I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.

I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.

I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.

I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.

We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves.

I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it's just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It's very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby.

I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

Glory and gore go hand in hand.

I'm surrounded by the beach, so I love to fish and to dive and to swim. I walk a lot, and I bike around. I hang out at the beach, really, and muck around.

So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like Miley Cyrus and all these girls' thing, which to me is just the weirdest thing to say to someone ... Now when people are like, 'Tell me what you think of Miley!' I'll say, 'What do you think of Miley?' and they'll flounder and say, 'Well, I think she's really talented ... ' and I'm like, there you go.

Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.

I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.'

Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.

I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising ... I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.

it feels so scary getting old.

I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.

If I'm going to dress up, I like things that are quite long and classic. I like feeling dressed up and like a lady.

Don't you think that is boring how people talk

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

Everyone's competing for a love they won't receive.

Raise a glass, 'cause I'm not done saying it.
They all wanna get rough, get away with it.
Let 'em talk 'cause we're dancing in this world alone, world alone, we're all alone.

We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.

I don't get why people say the sky's the limit when we have footprints on the moon.

I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.

If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.

We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear.

Coming from New Zealand, all the music I listen to is not made by New Zealanders. People never come to New Zealand to play a show because it's in the middle of nowhere.

I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,
So there.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.

I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.

I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.

I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.

People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and ... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.

I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.