Words matter. These are the best MO Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In Denmark we’re so privileged. You get money to study, you get money if you’re sick and you get money if your hand hurts. It’s hard to be critical of people who are sick getting money, but in Denmark everyone gets money thrown at them and it makes them lazy.
I love having short hair – that means I can wear big earrings and even dresses sometimes without me feeling too feminine.
Life was so easy as a child, maybe you fall over and you cry but you get back up again.
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.
In my heart, I want to believe I shouldn’t give up anything to become a huge pop star.
I think everyone grew up thinking that by their mid-20s they’d have everything sorted out, but I know I don’t.
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.
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 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.’
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.’
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 such a horrible feeling to not be honest to who you are.
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.
I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.
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.
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.
I think I would like to kiss Darth Vader.
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.
Not to be a bummer, but heartbreak is great for inspiration – we all know that – and it’s really hard to write songs if I go through a phase where I don’t feel much.
I’ve always wanted to make songs.
Everything changed after ‘Lean On.’
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 want to be myself otherwise what’s the point.
I love a kind of androgynous look and then let the accessories / clothes shape it.
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.
The older I get the more I become aware that I’m a woman.
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.’
I have a crazy imagination, and it’s a visual one that can be scary from time to time.
You have to dare to totally be yourself and go 100% with your heart and guts.
For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.
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.
You start off at an early age dreaming about love, but you have no idea how it will be.
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.
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.
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.
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’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!
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.
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.
