Lipa: "For me, my aim is to just be as good as possible. If people do look up to me, I have to set the best example I can."

Lipa: “I always told myself never to have a plan B. I feel like that’s also one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing now, because I just never really rested until I got here.”

Lipa: “With my work, I’m always like, ‘OK, what’s next?’”

Lipa: “I was constantly being like, ‘This is me and I’m not manufactured,’ but it takes a lot of growth and time and effort and all of that until you get to a point where people say, ‘Okay, I believe you.’”

Lipa: "I try to make the most of each moment."

Lipa: “I’ve always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I’ve been lucky about is I didn’t bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.”

Lipa: “Everything is at 200 miles an hour. Sometimes I just have to step back and take a moment. I have to pinch myself quite often.”

Lipa: “I got that because I always wear my heart on my sleeve and I’m not going to change that. I’m never going to change myself, but it’s in barbed wire because I should protect my heart no matter what."

Lipa: “Music serves as an escape and I’m hoping that… music just brings some light and joy, and takes away from what’s going on outside.”

Lipa: “It’s one thing when people are mean about you, but you know that you did your best, but it’s another thing when people are mean about you and you know that you actually haven’t had the opportunity to be the best because you’ve spread yourself so thinly in trying to do everything at once.”

Lipa: "I love working. I always need to be busy, it fulfills me."

Lipa: “What we’ve done for so many years is learn to micromanage what gets thrown at you. You get tougher and stronger and you learn to walk away or stand your ground.”

Lipa: "I'm super organized. When I was a kid, my parents would already find to-do lists like: do my homework, take a shower, go to dinner."

Lipa: "I was rather strong. I was the mum of my group of friends. When we went out, I looked out for the other girls. If there was any weird behaviour, I’d step in. And when a guy would tell me, 'Give us a smile, love…' I’d respond, 'Don’t talk to me. You don’t get to tell me when to smile.'"

Lipa: “I’ve been able to live my dream and do something on a global scale.”

Lipa: "When I think of my teenage years, I didn’t care about my looks or my makeup. With the first covers I posted on YouTube, I wasn’t thinking about my image."

Lipa: “I never really wanted to base success on charts and chart positioning. For me, it’s really about the shows and seeing them grow.”

Lipa: "When my parents invited friends around, I jumped straight into a performance, and it must have been quite annoying because I would come in screaming: 'Look at me everyone because the show’s about to begin!'"

Lipa: "If I wasn't a singer, I would be a fairy princess."

Lipa: “I haven’t been told not to say stuff about things I feel passionate about. If somebody told me not to discuss issues I’m passionate about, I wouldn’t listen. I’ve always been this way and I feel like nothing can really change who I am as a person.”

Lipa: "I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story's coming from me."

Lipa: “For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you’re not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know? For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.”

Lipa: “Here’s to more women on these stages, more women winning awards and more women taking over the world.“

Lipa: "My parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it, I was always kind of a performer child. I remember my parents would have guests over, and they would bring their kids, and I would make sure that we were ready to put a show on."

Lipa: "I get a bit insecure if I feel like there's too much makeup on my face or if I feel like I'm cakey."

Lipa: “I wanted to write songs that were more sad, more about heartbreak, because I thought that writing happy songs would turn into cheesy songs. I had to fight that because I was like, ‘I am happy. I deserve to be happy.’ I should be able to write about that without the fear of feeling like I’m compromising my authenticity because I’m not crying about something or someone.”

Lipa: “Note to self: self-love isn’t selfish.”

Lipa: “I’m learning to accept myself. I’m still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it’s been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.”

Lipa: "I think that's the magic of music and collaborations at this time. Everything is so genre-bending."

Lipa: "What I love to do with the collaborations I do is always something that people don't expect me to do, something that's a little bit outside of my comfort zone. I love to experiment. I love to surprise people and learn so much from my peers."

Lipa: "I'm heavily influenced by the Nineties - I love juxtaposing a slip dress with trainers and a vintage leather jacket."

Lipa: “My goal is to get my music out to as many people as possible. That a song of mine is being played on the radio so far away from home really, really pushes me. It’s everything I’ve dreamed of.”

Lipa: "I think there’s a huge influx of female artists—the future is female."

Lipa: “I hope I inspire some more kids in Kosovo to know they can do whatever they set their mind to; anything is possible, no matter where you’re from.”

Lipa: "I’m on my path of world domination, so I have to be everywhere at once at the same time."

Lipa: “To earn money for music sessions, I worked in restaurants and nightclubs, eventually scoring a record contract at the age of 18. My debut album experience also helped me define who I wanted to be as an artist. I feel like I’m very much more in touch with who I am now. I have a very clear idea of what I’m doing and what I want to say. Things I’m not afraid of.”

Lipa: "I can’t dance. If I try, I’ll trip onstage."

Lipa: "As much as people say I've been putting out a lot of songs, I think that's definitely helped me. People to get to know me a bit more. I've been very lucky to have people react to the music so well and have such a loyal fan base so early on."

Lipa: “I believe in supporting women in all fields of work.”

Lipa: "I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, ‘Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.’"

Lipa: “I don’t feel like an album should finish once it’s out. Yes, people can hear it, but you can still create such a fun world around it.”

Lipa: “Every time you achieve something, you want to go after what’s next. I’d like to see my own shows grow and someday be a headliner, fill up stadiums.“

Lipa: “I think the artists are really the face of the music they make. It’s no longer the genre that dictates it.“

Lipa: "Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I’m trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every single piece of me."

Lipa: “I knew what I had to do to be the very best I could be, so I made sure I had a significant amount of time to be able to do that.”

Lipa: “There were times that I felt people were being so mean that when someone recognized me and said: ‘I really like your music,’ I’d be like: ‘Oh my God, not everyone hates me!’”

Lipa: “I’ve really loved the idea of Future Nostalgia having its own world.”

Lipa: “With every song, the momentum was building, but only tiny little bits. I was doing new things, I was learning what was expected of me, how to be in front of a camera, how to better the last performance.”

Lipa: “You never know what the next thing is that could unite people.”

Lipa: “I was just putting songs out in the hopes that they would just have a little bit more momentum than the last song. Baby steps. Just a little bit more than the other ones. Just a couple more people. Sell out one more show, or have the rooms fill up just a little bit more.”

Lipa: "Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs make it."

Lipa: "Everything is pretty much down to the minute, and I've been like that since I was little. So my dad would find little to-do lists all around the house; of what time I was going to have breakfast, what time I was going to be in the shower, what time I was going to head to school, what time I had to do my homework, what time I had TV time. Like everything was down!"

Lipa: “Artists that are already well known get the upper hand, so you do have to get on those playlists as much as possible to be heard.”

Lipa: “People almost made me feel bad about my achievements, or didn’t allow me to feel proud of the things that I’ve done because they made me feel like I was almost unworthy of them, even though I know I’ve worked really hard and I did so much of the work, the performances and behind the scenes.”

Lipa: “I learned that I could write happy songs that are still really authentic and have the possibility of being cool and not seen as bubblegum.”

Lipa: “Fans came up to me and they would say, ‘My God, this made me feel really empowered.’ And I thought, wow, that is really interesting that something that felt so therapeutic to write is also helping someone else and maybe this is the kind of direction I want to go in.”

Lipa: "Homophobia and transphobia are neighbors of misogyny. Many people, deep down, are just scared of themselves."