Lorde
Lorde
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, better known by her stage name Lorde, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. Born in Takapuna and raised in Devonport, Auckland, she became interested in performing as a child. In her early teens, she signed with Universal Music Group and was later paired with the songwriter and record producer Joel Little, who has co-written and produced most of Lorde's works. Her first major release, The Love Club EP, was commercially released in March 2013. The EP reached...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth7 November 1996
CityAuckland, New Zealand
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.
So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.
I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.
If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.
What I leave behind has a life of its own.
I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.
June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible.
We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own.
And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.