Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Glory and gore go hand in hand.
David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow
Everyone’s competing for a love they won't receive.
It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.
I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.
The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.
The smarter the person, the more boring the instagram account.
I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.
Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.
We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.
Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet
I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad.
Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.
Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.
I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.
Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.
I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.
Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.
I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.
If I'm going to dress up, I like things that are quite long and classic. I like feeling dressed up and like a lady.
I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.
I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.
I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.
I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.
In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.
Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
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.
Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.
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.
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
I'm surrounded by the beach, so I love to fish and to dive and to swim. I walk a lot, and I bike around. I hang out at the beach, really, and muck around.
Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear pants and be awesome.' That's something I definitely embody.
I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.
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.
What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.
Coming from New Zealand, all the music I listen to is not made by New Zealanders. People never come to New Zealand to play a show because it's in the middle of nowhere.
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 a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.
I'm, like, the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are.
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'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.
I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?
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.