Lorde

“I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.”

“People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.”

“Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means.”

“I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.”

“I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.”

“I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.”

“My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.”

“Maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks.”

“The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.”

“I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.”

“I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.”

“I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad.”

“I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'I wish Facebook wasn't around,' because, you know, it is what it is.”

“I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.”

“I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'”

“I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.”

“I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.”