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I think life is a chain of events.
The Monsters & Strangerz, I love them so much.
'Never Forget You' was the first song I co-wrote.
The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.
Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.
My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.
I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.
I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.
I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.
We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?
Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.
History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
I'm not even close to where I want to be; it's just a little mini step on the way. This is only the beginning.
That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.
I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.
If I have a day off, I'll get up at three in the afternoon and make some noodles. I fix my makeup and then party until 5 A.M.
In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'
My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.
I'm just waiting for the day when my songs aren't flying. Because I kind of believe in Murphy's law - if something can go wrong, it eventually will.
I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.
I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
It's very, very important to wash off makeup. Like, really wash it off - I used to be really bad and leave some on when I would go to bed, but it's so important to get it all off.
Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like foundation, contour, highlight, eyeliner, shadow, lashes, lipstick - everything! But I really, really love my contours.
I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.
When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
In the car on my way to the studio, I was listening to 'Where Are U Now' with Justin Bieber and Jack U, so I was like, 'Wow, this is such a banger.' I loved the thought of having a ballad at the beginning and then just a massive drop.
I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'
I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.