Tove Lo Quotes

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.

The first love is the difficult love.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.

I feel that nudity is sort of what we do as actors.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in the world, because if he hadn't consistently said, 'Don't censor yourself, don't worry about me' - if he'd been anxious and worried about it - then it would never have gotten written.

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.

You don't have to have angst to be an artist, but it's grist to the mill. If you want to explore the whole emotional spectrum in your work, it helps to have experienced intense emotions.

I'm not very comfortable about the audience getting a peek into my personal life. I like to keep my personal space.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.

I don't know, I think when filming a reality show, you definitely sign up for showing the world vulnerable parts of your life and all that can be challenging.

I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

I'm not going to blurt out my whole life on the Internet and just be all crazy emotional. I'm not that type of person, but it's in my music.

If I ever come out with a very serious, romantic project, you should know that it's because, at that point, I would have experienced a very agitated relationship.

I have to be vulnerable to allow myself to give the best performance I, and that doesn't stop in between takes, and it doesn't stop when I am finished for the night.

Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.

I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can - without scaring people off too much, I guess.

For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.