With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery. Lorde More Quotes by Lorde More Quotes From Lorde Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would. Lorde sunflower wildflowers people Everyone’s competing for a love they won't receive. Lorde competing 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. Lorde care two people 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. Lorde feelings looks thinking The smarter the person, the more boring the instagram account. Lorde accounts instagram boring 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. Lorde next walks needs It's a new art form, showing people how little we care. Lorde care people art Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about. Lorde kind persons mother Glory and gore go hand in hand. Lorde gore glory hands 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. Lorde growing-up adults night 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 careers people thinking 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. Lorde parent important children Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say. Lorde feminism fashion important I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run. Lorde badass running art Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry. Lorde wikipedia matter doe People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that. Lorde feminism class people Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool. Lorde dad fashion brother We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen. Lorde bigger queens David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow Lorde bowie tomorrow sound I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars. Lorde shopping dollars three