Lorde

"People are really afraid of teenagers having sex."

"I like having complex feelings."

"The world is complicated and scary sometimes."

"I don't read my own press, I read other people's press."

"Self-care is quite difficult to talk about because everyone has a different idea of what that is."

"I think some people are meant to be sad."

"Being a teenager is a beautiful, wonderful, complex, emotional thing."

"I was never the girl for any boy who wanted to touch me all the time."

"Youth is something you're born into, but adulthood you have to become."

"I'm interested in intimacy and the politics of that."

"The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works."

"I'm very interested in the concept of immortality."

"Reality is quite uncomfortable sometimes."

"I don't want to waste my time on people who hate me."

"When you're sad, you understand your music better."

"Everything is becoming more and more digital, and I'm not sure how I feel about that."

"I want to make work that resonates with people on a visceral level."

"Fame is a form of anxiety."

"I think there's power in acknowledging your own darkness."

"Privacy is something I've lost without really understanding how."

"I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I believe in good music."

"The world is obsessed with youth, but youth is not a value."

"I'm attracted to things that are broken and misshapen."

"The word crazy is overused in a way that it loses meaning."

"I like people who are ambitious and self-aware."

"Politics is something I've been thinking about more and more."

"I believe in strong, independent characters who are figuring things out."

"There's something powerful about desperation."

"I don't think failure is something to be afraid of."

"The concept of beauty standards is something I actively reject."