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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I always loved performing and being on stage. "

" 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. "

" Singing gives me a lot of energy. "

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