Tove Lo

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.

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.

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.

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 always loved performing and being on stage.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.'