Top 35 Tove Lo Quotes

I always loved performing and being on stage.

I’m not from a music family at all.

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.

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 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.’

A lot of times, I get asked, ‘Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?’ I don’t see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I’m a girl, I’m supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

It’s OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you’re good, that annoys me. Have confidence!

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.

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’ve always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing – very stable, classic family, everything‘s nice and good – I was always looking for something different.

Both my best and my worst habit is that I’m very impulsive.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can’t pull that off… I can’t censor myself.

I’ve always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don’t really know what to do with yourself – in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.

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.

I definitely feel I’m outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don’t think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.

I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and you polish to make it fit more people or to not be too vulgar or make sure of, ‘Can this really play on the radio?’ And I like not doing that.

That’s kind of how I am – a roller coaster of emotions.

Singing gives me a lot of energy.

For me, everything that you’re passionate about always comes with a little pain. That’s how life is, and that’s how I want to live it. I don’t want it to be balanced and ordinary.

The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they’re going to sing about you.

I’ve had to learn how to say no to things, and have people around me that don’t push me too hard, because I’ll go until I just crash. I don’t have a stop button.

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

If you say, ‘I listen to pop,’ you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark – kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.

My dream was never to become this unattainable star.

I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it’s like, everything that I don’t really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

There are some nights where I don’t get enough sleep, or we’re traveling a lot. And then I’ll go do a radio show, and the DJs are usually so energetic. And they’re like, ‘Why aren’t you excited?’ I say, ‘I am excited. I’m just Swedish. This is my excited. I can’t get to an American excitement level.’

I would never agree to sing something I didn’t feel was 100% me.

I’m always exhausted after a show, even if it’s just half an hour.

I thought ‘Twinkies’ was just a word for ‘cookies,’ not a specific thing. They kind of scare me a little bit because they last forever.

I’m from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It’s the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it’s all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.

I fight the same way as my dad! I’ve picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make ’em laugh, I think, ‘Yes, I’ve succeeded.’