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" 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. "

Tove Lo

People

Artist

Myself

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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Stop

People

" 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. "

" That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions. "

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

Tove Lo

Upset

Head

" I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 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.' "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" My dream was never to become this unattainable star. "

" 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 thought 'Twinkies' was just a word for 'cookies,' not a specific thing. They kind of scare me a little bit because they last forever. "

Tove Lo

Little

Last

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why. "

" 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. "