If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
— Zara Larsson
'Never Forget You' was the first song I co-wrote.
Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.
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'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
I think whatever you love the most is where you should spend your money.
In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
I think life is a chain of events.
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
I'm not even close to where I want to be; it's just a little mini step on the way. This is only the beginning.
The Monsters & Strangerz, I love them so much.
I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.
If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.
My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.
I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.
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.
I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.
When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.
In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'
I'm just waiting for the day when my songs aren't flying. Because I kind of believe in Murphy's law - if something can go wrong, it eventually will.
It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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.'
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.'
I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.
I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?
Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.
I've always loved to perform in front of people, but it became pretty serious when I participated in 'Sweden's Got Talent.' I thought it would be a fun thing to do, and I was just like, 'OK, why not?' And Mom was like, 'OK, sure, sure, do this!' So I did, and I won it!
That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like foundation, contour, highlight, eyeliner, shadow, lashes, lipstick - everything! But I really, really love my contours.
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.
I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.
History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.
It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.
I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.
In the car on my way to the studio, I was listening to 'Where Are U Now' with Justin Bieber and Jack U, so I was like, 'Wow, this is such a banger.' I loved the thought of having a ballad at the beginning and then just a massive drop.
