Lorde My name is Ella; that’s who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I’m doing homework. But when I’m up on stage, ‘Lorde’ is a character. – Lorde Character Quotes Ella Quotes Friends Quotes Hanging Quotes Homework Quotes Lorde Quotes School Quotes Stage Quotes It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say. I’m a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn’t about making things easy. It’s a weird juxtaposition.
Oliver Luck Yeah, I think anyone who plays the game for any length of time will pick up a concussion or two or three. I did. – Oliver Luck
Jens Lekman My songs don’t deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they’re sort of just where stories happen, not the stories themselves. – Jens Lekman
Amarinder Singh Punjabi farmers are very enterprising, but they need to know where to sell the produce and what the end cost will be. – Amarinder Singh
Ruel A lot of my songs do relate to me, and the lyrics come from a place within myself and things that I’ve experienced, but I can always put myself in other people’s shoes that are older than me. – Ruel
Ben Okri I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation. – Ben Okri
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