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.' Lorde boilbravadocareer share on social
I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation. Lorde appreciateconversationfriend Change image and share on social
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. Lorde analyzecontextcool share on social
I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate. Lorde areaconfuseembody share on social
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. Lorde coolcoverdraw share on social
I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren. Lorde barrencomeculturally Change image and share on social
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. Lorde backgroundfictionhave Change image and share on social
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. Lorde conveyemotionlyric Change image and share on social
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. Lorde enjoyimplicationmean Change image and share on social
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? Lorde attentionburnconscious share on social
