Lorde Quotes

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

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.

Everyone’s competing for a love they won't receive.

The smarter the person, the more boring the instagram account.

Glory and gore go hand in hand.

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.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.

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.

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.

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

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.

Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet

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.

Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

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.

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.

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.”

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.

Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.