I got a promo of 'Nichts Muss' in what would have been 2002 or 2003 and fell totally in love with it after listening to it on an airplane that took me to Australia via Taipei and Kuala Lumpur.

I write for a lot of places, so I'm on a lot of promo lists.

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.

I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to.

To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.