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Tove Lo

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 29, 1987

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.

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That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.

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My dream was never to become this unattainable star.

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I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

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

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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.

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When I'm angry, like, if someone gets me really upset, whatever comes into my head, I scream it.

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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.

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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.

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

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At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green - and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme.

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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.

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I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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I always loved performing and being on stage.

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I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.

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In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.

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