Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by MO

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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 older I get the more I become aware that I'm a woman.

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.

If you stick with one sound and one way of working, how will you ever progress?

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 love a kind of androgynous look and then let the accessories / clothes shape it.

I think everyone grew up thinking that by their mid-20s they'd have everything sorted out, but I know I don't.

Owning flatware makes me feel like a grown-up. That and knowing that flatware is called flatware.

I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.

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 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.

In my heart, I want to believe I shouldn't give up anything to become a huge pop star.

Kim Gordon is my biggest style icon.

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.

You cannot just be the feature act, not that that's a bad thing, because that's a good thing, especially nowadays. But as an artist, you want to express yourself and you want to know what you want to express.

I was very ambitious in my dream of being a pop star.

As a teenager my favorite band was Sonic Youth, and everything they did was always obviously them, and always so artistic. There was another layer of meaning, underneath everything, that you could search for.

You have to dare to totally be yourself and go 100% with your heart and guts.

I think the most radical thing you can do is be yourself.

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.

You start off at an early age dreaming about love, but you have no idea how it will be.

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.

I feel so grateful for the whole ride that I've been on.

I think I would like to kiss Darth Vader.

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.

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.

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 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 love mainstream music.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

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 such a horrible feeling to not be honest to who you are.

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 try not to spend too much time online but at the same time if I didn't, I'd be isolated.

I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would actually be singing on a top 10 Billboard song.

Life was so easy as a child, maybe you fall over and you cry but you get back up again.

I want to be myself otherwise what's the point.

I had everything you could collect. I had these Spice Girls postcards. I also had the stickers and Barbie girls. I had all five of them. I was a real fangirl. They were actually preaching some cool stuff, the thing about girl power and sticking together with your best girlfriends.

A lot of my songs are about being a teenager with a tornado in your head.

I have a crazy imagination, and it's a visual one that can be scary from time to time.

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?

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'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.

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.

I love having short hair - that means I can wear big earrings and even dresses sometimes without me feeling too feminine.

I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.

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.

Everything changed after 'Lean On.'

The biggest lie about getting older is that excitement and growth end with youth.

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.

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.

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.

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.