Olivia Rodrigo

I think I feel inadequate in many sorts of relationships, whether that be a work relationship or a friendship relationship.

— Olivia Rodrigo

So, when I listen to songs I'll like, see colors. Many songs on 'SOUR' are purple, like 'driver's license' is purple. But 'good 4 u' is like a purpley-blue, 'jealousy, jealousy' is like bright red. 'deja vu' is like orange and pink and light purple. It's like, lighter and more pastel-y.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm very chill. I keep to myself.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think growing up, I always had this idea that more is better, like more friends, more people in your life, going out, more experiences. But I think keeping your circle small is so important, and just talking to people who you really love and trust has so much value. I don't think there's any need to spread yourself too thin.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'd be lying if I said that putting my deepest, darkest insecurities and sadnesses out there is just slightly scary. But I've always been an oversharer.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think restriction is very inspiring to creativity.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm a Pisces through and through, baby. Pisces are like super emotional, super musical. They like water, usually and I love water.

— Olivia Rodrigo

At the end of the day, I love making music and expressing myself and making things that inspire me. The fact that other people like it and are nominating it for Grammys and all that other stuff, it's icing on the cake.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think if you distill any emotion down to its most essential parts, that in itself is truthful if you're really feeling that way.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I always thought of myself as a singer/songwriter who fell into acting and really liked it, rather than a child actor who's like, 'Oh, I'm going to try to be a pop star now.'

— Olivia Rodrigo

You can create your own reality sometimes with social media. What you see just becomes your reality, and it's totally not at all.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I love '90s grungy things, PJ Harvey's style, Alexa Chung's style.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think songwriting has really helped me home in on what I like about myself and my art.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I love making the audience scream. It just feels very cathartic.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Well, I sleep so much on tour.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I always say that I fall in love with artists, not songs.

— Olivia Rodrigo

So, when I listen to songs I'll like, see colors. Many songs on 'SOUR' are purple, like 'driver's license' is purple. But 'good 4 u' is like a purpley-blue, 'jealousy, jealousy' is like bright red. 'deja vu' is like orange and pink and light purple. It's like, lighter and more pastel-y.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I just want to be effortless, I guess.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I literally wrote breakup songs before I ever held a boy's hand.

— Olivia Rodrigo

You definitely have to be a businesswoman to be a musician.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I had such a desire to live and experience things and make mistakes and grow after 'SOUR' came out, I kind of felt this pressure to be this girl that I thought everyone expected me to be. And I think because of that pressure, maybe I did things that maybe I shouldn't have - dated people that I shouldn't have.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I love a tank top.

— Olivia Rodrigo

There's a path for me to have a stake in the music and art I create, which is only fair.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Nothing in music is ever new.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I always say that I never had a normal high school experience. I've always been homeschooled because I've been working.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I write to figure out how I feel, to move through my emotions, and to commemorate and honor seasons of my life.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm obsessed with L.A. for many reasons. Best weather. Best food. I will live and die by that. Best sushi, best Mexican food... So good. It's just amazing. Dreams come true here.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think there's a lot of vampire lore to be played with like 'You only come out at night' and stuff like that. There's a lot of fun songwriting fodder in there.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I felt that a lot - since I don't look exactly like the girl next door in all these movies, I'm not attractive.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Obviously, I write all of my lyrics from my heart and my life first.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Every single artist is inspired by artists who have come before them. It's sort of a fun, beautiful sharing process.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I love looking out in the audience, and sometimes I'll see these girls and they're so young, they're seven or eight, and they're screaming these angry songs and getting so hyped up and so enraged, and I just think that's the coolest thing ever.

— Olivia Rodrigo

What's so beautiful about music is that it can be so inspired by music that's come out in the past.

— Olivia Rodrigo

It doesn't matter if you're young and healthy, getting the vaccine is about protecting yourself, your friends and your family.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Our bodies should never be in the hands of politicians.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think it's disappointing to see people take things out of context and discredit any young woman's work.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I just feel like myself when I'm writing. If I don't do it, I get depressed.

— Olivia Rodrigo

You can literally create a whole song in your bedroom, and it can affect millions of people.

— Olivia Rodrigo

There's four chords in every song. That's the fun part - trying to make that your own.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think I feel inadequate in many sorts of relationships, whether that be a work relationship or a friendship relationship.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I don't have beef with anyone.

— Olivia Rodrigo

If you had every color and palette and any size canvas you'd want, it'd kind of feel overwhelming and you wouldn't make anything particularly inspiring. But I think by restricting yourself, you can kind of force your brain to work in different ways and have a really fun time doing it.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I don't really subscribe to hating other women because of boys.

— Olivia Rodrigo

It's hard to find your footing in the world.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I sleep for 13 hours a day sometimes.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm way too hard on myself and it's past the point of being productive.

— Olivia Rodrigo

There are therapeutic benefits to songwriting. Whenever I'm feeling upset, I go to the piano. I go to the piano before I call a friend.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think there's a lot of strength in saying: I don't know anything and I feel so insecure and unwanted.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I feel like if a girl writes a song about heartbreak, very often people start criticizing her for feeling those emotions, and only writing about that. I do just love a heartbreak song.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm just writing songs to process what's going on, whether in my personal life or in my perception of the world.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm just constantly learning and growing at such a rapid rate.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Telling stories through songwriting has been my favorite thing to do for as long as I can remember.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm very much a people pleaser. I'm getting out of it as I grow up. But when I was younger, I was like, 'Oh, if that's what you think, great.' But that's the worst. That's the kiss of death in music.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I definitely put a lot of pressure on myself all the time.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I write songs when I'm in the depths of my emotions.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I don't kiss and tell.

— Olivia Rodrigo

My favorite songs to sing are the really angry ones, especially on tour.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I just love telling stories, whether that be in a song or movie, that's really something that really excites me.

— Olivia Rodrigo

It's hard for anyone to grow up in this media where it feels like if you don't have European features and blonde hair and blue eyes, you're not traditionally pretty.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I've always struggled with wanting to be this perfect American girl and the reality of not feeling like that all the time.

— Olivia Rodrigo

It was really hard for me to watch people on TikTok and stuff that dissects my 17-year-old love life. That was really weird. But again, I think I understood the curiosity.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I would post about 'Twilight' even if I didn't have a song called 'Vampire.'

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm really into sustainability, it's so important to me. I'm big into sustainable ethical fashion, too. I used to be a big shopaholic for a long time. I would use it to fill a void.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I came up with the lyrics and the melody for 'good 4 u' one morning in the shower.

— Olivia Rodrigo

One of my favorite lyrics that I've ever written is on the last track on 'SOUR' called 'Hope Ur Ok.' It's: 'I hope he took his bad deal and made a royal flush.' I really like that lyric, it's one of my faves. I think that song is really beautiful, too, as the last track on the album.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Sometimes you just wake up and go into the studio and see what comes out of you.

— Olivia Rodrigo

When you're making the record, you always have your favorite song, and my producer has his favorite song and the label has their favorite song, but sometimes you don't really know which songs people are going to choose as their favorite until it comes out.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I owe so much to my fans.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I don't know why I cannot see any movie that was made before 1970. My brain just doesn't compute.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I love 'My Boy,' like I think that song is so genius and clever and fun.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Most 14-year-olds aren't in a room with adults being like, 'So, what's your brand?'

— Olivia Rodrigo

It's so nice to be welcomed into the music industry and so great to be supportive of other women.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I feel like I grew 10 years between the ages of 18 and 20 - it was such an intense period of awkwardness and change.

— Olivia Rodrigo

It's sort of funny to have songs get big about like, how much you feel like nobody likes you. It's sort of ironic and weird.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think writing the first album, it just felt so spontaneous. I was 17 years old learning how to write songs for the first time and just pouring my heart out. I had so much to say.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I love pop-punk music; I love grunge music; I love country music and folk music.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think auditions are really rough for anyone. I know people who've gone into their first audition and booked it, but that definitely was not my experience.

— Olivia Rodrigo

If I'm ever stressed out, I'll like jump in a pool or the ocean or even going in the shower and I'm just reborn.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think I was rightfully really nervous that I was gonna be one hit wonder. Nothing wrong with being a one hit wonder.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I love living alone.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I've definitely seen corporate dollars be prioritized over people's mental health. That's always been something that I've been really conscious of in my own career, and I'm really lucky I'm surrounded by people who are conscious of that and conscious of my mental health being the most important thing.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I listen to music as if it's spoken-word poetry. I'm a lyric-driven songwriter, so it's been a learning process to focus on other things. Collaborating really broadens my horizons to other important things about music.

— Olivia Rodrigo

It's really hard to learn songwriting from a book.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Writing songs about how I feel has always been easy and fun for me, and I think the business side of music has been something I've had a harder time learning.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I grew up feeling inspired by people like Carole King, who wrote songs for other people to start her career, and I always thought, 'What an admirable thing to do.'

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm a big dynamics girl. All my favorite music is super dynamic and gets really quiet, then really loud. I've always been drawn to stuff like that.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I just love writing songs.

— Olivia Rodrigo

There's so many Twitter conspiracy theories. I only look at alien-conspiracy theories.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think it would be really cool to collaborate with Billie Eilish. I think everything she does is just so spectacular.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm very tame.

— Olivia Rodrigo

High School Musical' is just such a fun project, it's so fun to work on and it's so fun to watch just as a viewer.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Hope Ur OK' makes me really sad, in a great way - it just makes me really emotional. It's a super personal song about people that I really love. That one gets me.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think I feel inadequate in many sorts of relationships, whether that be a work relationship or a friendship relationship.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I feel like when you're making the album, you can't really see the forest through the trees a little bit about what's about or what you're trying to get across.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I was really inspired by '90s alternative rock records with 'Sour,' especially alternative rock girls. I think the albums from that time were so brutally honest and angsty, and I wanted to make an angsty record about me growing up and going through heartbreak.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I've always been such an oversharer. I'll tell my Uber driver all of my deepest traumas and insecurities, and so I just think songwriting for me is an extension of that aspect of my personality.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I'm a super specific songwriter. I always have been. I think the most impactful songs are specific. Broad storytelling just isn't fun in any art medium.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Lots of people call me Liv. Some people call me Livy. My mom calls me Livy Loubelle. My grandpa calls me Oli.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I've always just wanted to be taken seriously as a singer-songwriter - not that being an actor takes away from that at all.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I think it's a certain gift when songwriters can go about their daily lives and extract little details that no one else would notice.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I don't actually think that I'm a great songwriter - I'm just a really prolific songwriter, and I write so much that some of them just have to be good. Like statistically, some of them have to work.

— Olivia Rodrigo

A song is so not good if I can tell it's coming from a disingenuous place. It's like a little lie-detector test, a polygraph.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I mean, I never want to say who any of my songs are about.

— Olivia Rodrigo

So, when I listen to songs I'll like, see colors. Many songs on 'SOUR' are purple, like 'driver's license' is purple. But 'good 4 u' is like a purpley-blue, 'jealousy, jealousy' is like bright red. 'deja vu' is like orange and pink and light purple. It's like, lighter and more pastel-y.

— Olivia Rodrigo