Tove Lo Quotes

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

I definitely went through some dark teenage years. I wore black raccoon eyeliner every single day. I would be late to school if I didn't have time to put my eyeliner on.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos.

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

In middle school, I wasn't allowed to wear makeup. I secretly bought Maybelline's SuperStay 24-hr. concealer at CVS. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'You're gonna look like a boy.' And I said, 'OK'... then I did it anyway. All through high school, I had a shaved head and I'd dye it crazy colors - it was fun.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.