Tove Lo Quotes

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 would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

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 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.

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'

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.

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'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour.

When I'm angry, like, if someone gets me really upset, whatever comes into my head, I scream it.

Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.

At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green - and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme.

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

I don't think I would live very long if I was a rock star.

I've never grown into loving someone. It's, like, either right away or slowly sinks in.

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.

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.

The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.

The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.

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 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 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.

The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.

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'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.

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.

Singing gives me a lot of energy.

It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.

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.

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.

I want people to FEEL something ... If it's sadness, anger, horny, happiness whatever! As long as it doesn't just pass you by.

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.

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.

My dream was never to become this unattainable star.

There are some nights where I don't get enough sleep, or we're traveling a lot. And then I'll go do a radio show, and the DJs are usually so energetic. And they're like, 'Why aren't you excited?' I say, 'I am excited. I'm just Swedish. This is my excited. I can't get to an American excitement level.'

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.