Quotes from Zara Larsson

I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.

I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.

History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.

For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'

We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.

I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

It's very, very important to wash off makeup. Like, really wash it off - I used to be really bad and leave some on when I would go to bed, but it's so important to get it all off.

That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.

I think life is a chain of events.

A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'

It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.

My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.

Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When was the last time Russia was having a super big international pop star in the U.S.?' I don't know, but I can name a few from Sweden. I think that gives us a lot of confidence in being pop stars because we're like, 'Oh, we actually can. We know we can.'

Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.

We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.

Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.

The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.

When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.

If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.