Tove Lo Quotes
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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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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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The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
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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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I always loved performing and being on stage.
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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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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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That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 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'm not from a music family at all.
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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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I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.
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The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album.
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I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.
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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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I don't think I would live very long if I was a rock star.
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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.
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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.