'Team' songstress Lorde has shared the lessons she has learned from her speedy rise to fame over the past year and confessed that one of the biggest was to take the opinions of others on board while still listening to her gut instinct. 

Speaking to the Rolling Stone, she explained that it's easy to be defensive in industry meetings when people are trying to change what she wants to do, but she has come to understand that sometimes she needs that outside perspective:

"I've learned how to interact with people in order to get what I want, but also…you can't just crush someone's vision, you have to make compromises. That wasn't something I was familiar with until quite recently. I was so kind of fixated on exactly what I wanted to do, but now I'm quite good at taking other peoples' opinions on board. But that being said, I've totally learned in this process that 99 percent of the time your gut is right, and you know what's right for you."

Lorde added that she has also really found the value in artistic integrity and knows that if she has a strong feeling she is right, she should honour that:

"I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, "Don't do that, don't do that," you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run. So, yeah, I guess it's a balance between listening to what other people say and not listening."