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" I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there. "

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" I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early. "

" The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream. "

" I struggle with myself every day - I am a lonesome person. I talk to my family - and I connect to some people deeply along the way - but I am a restless soul. Singing is the most immediate relief. "

" I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me. "

" If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal. "

" Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums. "

" The problem is, when I talk about heartbreak or whatever, people want to melt it down to some break-up of a relationship, but it's not about that. If you're a sensitive person, just stepping outside can be heartbreaking. "

" If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery. "

" I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself. "

" It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system. "

" I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new. "

" I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself. "

" I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes. "

" I used to get really sick. I would go to the doctor with all these ailments, and they would tell me I needed to be at home. I didn't even really understand what that meant because since I was a baby, I've always been moving, moving, and then touring. "

" I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way. "

" During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show. "

" I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper. "

" I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs. "

" It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything. "

" If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist. "

" I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can. "

" It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy. "

" You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people. "

" I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that. "

" Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me. "

" I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores. "

" There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old. "

" I think everything in life comes in threes: heartbreak and all that. You've got to do the full round in order to learn. "

" I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it. "

" Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together. "