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

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" 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. "

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

" 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 always loved performing and being on stage. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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 am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person. "

" I'm not from a music family at all. "

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