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" When I'm angry, like, if someone gets me really upset, whatever comes into my head, I scream it. "
Tove Lo
Upset
Like
Head
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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. "
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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? "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album. "
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New York
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me. "
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Never
Something
Feel
" 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. "
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" That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions. "
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I Am
Roller Coaster
Emotions
" 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. "
Tove Lo
Speak
Energy
Audience
" The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it. "
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Pop Music
" My dream was never to become this unattainable star. "
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Star
Become
Unattainable
" 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! "
Tove Lo
People
Yourself
Confidence
" Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive. "
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Habit
Very
Impulsive
" 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. "
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You
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Pain
" I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour. "
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Just
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Half
" 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. "
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Family
Nice
Music
" 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. "
Tove Lo
World
You
Best
" 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. "
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Little
Me
Last
" 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. "
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Fight
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Fast
" 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. "
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Grunge
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Honesty
" The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you. "
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Sing
You
Fact
" 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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Think
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Everyone
" 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. "
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Group
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Girl
" 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. "
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" I always loved performing and being on stage. "
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" I don't think I would live very long if I was a rock star. "
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Rock
Long
" 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. "
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People
Artist
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. "
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