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" 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. "
Listen
Music
Play
" Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear pants and be awesome.' That's something I definitely embody. "
Influence
Awesome
Shoulders
" 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!' "
Me
Long
Love
" I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well. "
I Am
Words
Great
" 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. "
Night
Life
Big
" 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. "
Mom
Poetry
Musically
" I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'I wish Facebook wasn't around,' because, you know, it is what it is. "
Relationship
People
Mind
" I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all. "
People
Live
Think
" I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been. "
Always
Music
Myself
" 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. "
Feeling
Dressed
Lady
" 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. "
Find
True
Reading
" 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.' "
Dress
Think
Myself
" I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe. "
Clothes
Like
Simple
" I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars. "
Love
Everything
You
" 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.' "
Love
Me
Wrong
" I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand. "
New Zealand
Zealand
Shore
" 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. "
Easy
Heart
Princess
" I'm, like, the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are. "
Go
World
Time
" I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything. "
Thought
Attention
Kind
" 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. "
People
Just
Find
" 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. "
Love
Walk
Beach
" 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. "
Song
Sometimes
Cool
" 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? "
Short
Time
People
" 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. "
Interviews
Me
Never
" I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. "
Short
Fiction
Like
" 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. "
Show
Talent
Writing
" I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively. "
Music
Little
Work
" I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren. "
Internet
Impossible
Kid
" 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. "
Think
Me
Learning
" 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. "
Say
Writing
Started
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