Songstress Lorde, real name Ella Yelich-O'Connor, has revealed that she no longer feels as though her stage persona is someone who is different to her everyday self as she is slowly but surely becoming more comfortable and confident in the music world. 

Speaking to Fader, the 18-year-old New Zealander confessed that when she originally told the press that Lorde was a character she had created, she felt as if she needed a way to step outside of herself while she performed and she no longer needs that:

"I think that when I gave that interview, my way of being Lorde was, like, I would walk onstage and a wall of terror would go up for that 45 minutes. I'd be in complete fear, and when I got offstage, it'd be like I'd awoken from a dream. That was my way of being around people and showing them what I could do. I guess I'm more confident in myself and the work I'm making. I think that I'm Ella most of the time, but Ella is Lorde now. Right?"

"The Venn diagram is overlapping more, whereas before it was like: switch on a light, walk in the room. Now I'm in the room all the time. Now I can be both people, or be one person and have multiple shades. Another thing that helped me become more comfortable is meeting people after shows and realising that, like, what I was doing was super-serious and super-special to them. It's not fair for me to disengage in this environment. I have to be there all the time for them."

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Watch Lorde's recent Live Lounge cover here: