I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.Collection: Movies
The biggest lie about getting older is that excitement and growth end with youth.
I think the most radical thing you can do is be yourself.
I've always liked the idea of being different.
I love to watch people not care too much about the choreography, or if they sing perfectly, or if the right label people are there to watch them. It's just about letting go and being crazy and engaging people in dance and madness - being a human instead of a doll.
Life was so easy as a child, maybe you fall over and you cry but you get back up again.
I try not to spend too much time online but at the same time if I didn't, I'd be isolated.
I think it's exciting, working with new people. There's something refreshing about not knowing what's going to happen. It's like an open sky of possibilities.
The best pop songs are the ones that show that person's personality. It's harder to do those singles because the stars, moon and sun have to align and the audience have to be ready, but it's worth waiting for it.
I tend to learn from mistakes that I've made. Even though it sucks to make bad choices, sometimes it's good to fail.
I have been a huge fan of ABRA ever since I discovered her in 2016. I love her gloomy fresh universe and her youthful unique vocals. Also I find her lyrics and visual output super exciting.
The hardest thing about being a woman is different for everyone. For me, it's the mirage of 'having it all' somewhere off in the distance. I think in many ways you do have to choose.
I guess after the whole success with 'Lean On' - me being introduced into this more mainstream audience - I was a little scared of being my true self, and being vulnerable and being gritty.
I want to be sure I'm being myself. I don't want to follow something because someone's like 'do this, it's popular.'
When I was seven-years-old I discovered the Spice Girls. I fell in love immediately, and I decided I wanted to be a musician myself. This became my goal and my biggest passion to strive for. And so I dressed up as a pop star at Halloween 1996.
My parents would use all of their money for us to go new and exciting places, instead of a new television or a big car.
Kim Gordon is my biggest style icon.
I've always really liked the idea of an artist name, like a cover-up, even though in my music I'm being very personal in the stuff that I write about.
The first song I ever wrote was called 'Because I Love You.' I was very inspired by the Spice Girls and they were singing about love and stuff and I was seven.
You start off at an early age dreaming about love, but you have no idea how it will be.
I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.
I think I would like to kiss Darth Vader.
The worst present I got was when I was 10. I had specifically wished for a Barbie horse. My dad got me a cheap, poorly made version of it and I cried all evening.
The best present I have ever received was when I was about 13 and I got a really cool pair of black fake buffalo shoes. I was so happy about them. They were fake but I was ok with that.
I do always like to sing Lana Del Rey, just because I know all her songs. But people at karaoke always want something up-tempo. Sometimes the energy level will change from 'party' to 'emotional,' which I think is great but some people don't.
I think around 2015 and 2016 I ended up in an identity crisis, artistically. I didn't know what direction I was going in. I'm a perfectionist and I want to be truthful to my beliefs, if you know what I mean.
Ever since I was 19, I've been in a relationship, to be honest. I always go from one to another, for some weird reason, and I always find someone where I connect on a personal level.
I have a crazy imagination, and it's a visual one that can be scary from time to time.
When I wrote my first album, I was reading Joseph Campbell - he's this philosopher who writes about mythology. That inspired the title, 'No Mythologies to Follow.'
As a kid I was super into all kinds of pop. It wasn't until I became a teenager that I moved more into alternative music and punk rock.
For a long time I wasn't actually listening to pop. But when I got back into electronic and hip-hop stuff, I rediscovered my passion for pop music.
When I was around 12 or 13 my older brother had this friend who was a goth. He was dressed all in black... You know like super, super goth! I was just so drawn to that darkness and weirdness. I just wanted to rebel. And now that I think about it, rebel against what? I mean I have lovely parents and brother and things were always very great.
Even though I have a huge love for alternative music and punk music, particularly, I have always had the love for pop music inside of me. Therefore actually it felt kind of natural for me to have different projects with different genres.
For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.
If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?
I was always into the West Coast rap, the production and the flows were always more appealing to me. I think my rapping days are over though.
Everything has always been so organic for me; I have no idea what I would be doing if it wasn't for music. Music forever!
I love having short hair - that means I can wear big earrings and even dresses sometimes without me feeling too feminine.
I love a kind of androgynous look and then let the accessories / clothes shape it.
I've been a fan of House of Holland for a couple of years now and I actually had a secret dream of working with the brand one day! So obviously I was super thrilled when I got this chance!
It's funny, I really feel like I've learned a lot in my career but I still feel like a child. Like, an 11-year-old? I think it will be like that all my life, actually.
When I talk to older people, they're like, 'you know what Karen? Life will always offer you new situations where you'll feel totally inexperienced.' But I think that's a good thing because without struggle you don't learn anything, and if you stop learning, you stop living, you know?
It's so important that you are constantly moving. And when things are hard, it will just make you fight harder - that's what you need to develop as a person, I think.
The older I get the more I become aware that I'm a woman.
Owning flatware makes me feel like a grown-up. That and knowing that flatware is called flatware.
I want to be myself otherwise what's the point.
It's such a horrible feeling to not be honest to who you are.
So many people have opinions and try to guide you, and everyone has the best intentions, but it makes it harder to cut through the noise and be like 'wow, this is what I really want to do.'
I'm such a pleaser - I want everyone around me to be happy - so it took a while for me to get to a point where I could say 'no, I need to be happy with everything that I put out.' I want it to be right.
Everything changed after 'Lean On.'