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Lorde could handle it if her next album is "really small".
The 17-year-old singer insists the most important thing about her second record is that she enjoys the songs because she'll have to perform them so often, and she doesn't care what size venues she ends up playing in.
She said: "To be honest, if the next record I make is really cool and I like it, I can handle it being really big and I can handle it being small.
"I have to play it every two years so if I love it that's OK."
The 'Royals' hitmaker enjoys touring as she likes to "burrow" herself in local life - though she loves returning home afterwards.
She told Stylist magazine: "Basically, everywhere I go I just want to kind of burrow into the culture and become a local.
"Like, I just want to know everything. I'm having so much fun travelling. But when I get home, I'm glad to be there. I'm glad to have the beach close by and lots of green everywhere. Where I live is a very big part of me. The geography of it."

Courtney Love consulted Kanye West about fashion.
The Hole singer - who announced that she'd be launching her own clothing collection nearly six years ago, but only confirmed a licensing agreement in 2011 - has been getting tips from the rapper about footwear ideas.
She told Kerrang! magazine: "I haven't put out rock music for a while. I've started a fashion line. Actually, I was talking to Kanye West the other day about shoes, you know..."
Courtney - who has 21-year-old daughter Frances with late husband Kurt Cobain - recently admitted she is growing increasingly concerned about the implications of being a role model for young girls.
She explained: "I never used to think about being a role model for girls, but I do now. I have a 21-year-old daughter and I realise how our actions can create copycat desires. A lot of the time when I was younger I had this real attitude of, 'F**k you, you suck!' to everything, but these days I don't really need the bullsh*t of that stuff.
"I'm 49, maybe I should have learnt this stuff about 20 years ago, but at least I am now."

Brandon Flowers thinks Morrissey is like a modern-day Elvis Presley.
The Killers frontman has been a fan of The Smiths for many years and admires their "humour" as well as musicianship.
He said: "The Smiths had the biggest impact on me. I was living in a small town in Utah and kids my age were into Korn and Tool but I was on the other end of the spectrum.
"The Smiths did so much in such a short time. They balanced this sense of humour with seriousness. With Johnny Marr on guitar and Andy Rourke on bass you couldn't lose. And Morrissey's voice is the closest thing we had to Elvis."
The 'Human' singer loved visiting Morrissey's hometown of Manchester, North West England, several years after he first got into The Smiths and was constantly looking for references mentioned in their songs.
He told NME magazine: "Years later I went with Dave [Keuning, Killers guitarist] to the Salford Lads Club in Manchester and took pictures.
"We played a gig at Manchester Academy, and across the street is the same church which Morrissey sings about in 'Vicar in a Tutu'.
"Even driving by a cemetery I was thinking, 'Is that the cemetery he was talking about?' You can walk down the streets and almost hear the songs coming to life."

Emeli Sande finds it "amazing" to think about her global success.
The 27-year-old singer recently looked back on the original lyrics to her hit single 'Next to Me' and still can't believe how far she's come since she penned the track, which was released two years ago.
She said: ""I was in the studio a couple of days ago with Craze & Hoax, the guy I wrote 'Next to Me' with, and he was like 'Oh look, I have the piece of paper you wrote 'Next to Me' on, so it has like 'Next to me, whoo-hoo' verse one, and everything's crossed out, things I wanted to say at first.
"Seeing things like that make it real, we put that song down in his bedroom and to know it went around the world is such an amazing feeling."
Emeli admitted growing up in Scotland, getting her big break to be a singer seemed like a "fantasy".
She said: "It's almost like this fantasy industry, I was up in Aberdeenshire and really wanted to sing but it was about making that link, how do you get into that London world, because that's where all the labels are and it's important to get your stuff heard."
Last week, the singer visited Glasgow to give a masterclass to aspiring songwriters and admitted she would have loved to have attended something similar when she was beginning her career.
She said: "I would have appreciated something like this, to get some advice how do you make those steps and let people hear what you're doing."

Arcade Fire will headline the opening night of British Summer Time Hyde Park 2014.
The indie rock group - consisting of Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Jeremy Gara and Tim Kingsbury - will bring their popular 'Reflektor' tour to the iconic London venue on July 3.
The 'We Exist' group will be supported on the night by British band Wild Beasts and American synthpop stars Future Islands.
British Summer Time Hyde Park, now in its second year, is a month-long musical celebration, with other headliners including Black Sabbath, who will perform on July 4, and the newly reformed Libertines taking the stage on July 5.
Pop super-group McBusted - consisting of McFly and Busted members Matt Willis and James Bourne - will headline the July 6 show.
A week later, Neil Young will take the stage on July 12, while Sir Tom Jones headlines the July 13 event.
Meanwhile, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi recently hinted the iconic rock group's performance at British Summer Time could be its last.
He said: "It could be the last ever Sabbath show. I don't want it to be, but there's nothing really planned touring-wise after that show, so for all we know that could be it really. To be honest I don't want to be touring to this extent too much longer, because it makes me feel so bad."

Roger Daltrey admits he sometimes forgets the lyrics to The Who's hits.
The 'My Generation' band's 70-year-old frontman, who has also just released the record 'Going Home' with musician Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson, insists he doesn't get nervous before going on stage with band mate Pete Townsend but is becoming forgetful as he gets older.
In a chat with Absolute Radio's Pete Mitchell, he said: "I always forget Who songs the first time we sing them. I don't get stage fright, I just forget the words. I'm quite deaf these days, it's come to us all. All that racket in the 70s and 80s and 60s. So I usually now work with these kind of in-ear monitors.
"The problem I've got is that the system I use and the monitor system aren't compatible. So I have to try and go back to working with monitors and I can't really hear myself well enough. I tend to sometimes over sing a bit."
Meanwhile, the singer, along with guitarist Pete are heading out on a world tour next year to celebrate The Who's 50th anniversary and Roger claims he doesn't like playing stadiums these days and prefers smaller gigs.
He said: "I never wanted to. We were kind of one of the first bands to ever play stadiums, never really liked them.
"It's just our audiences became that big, it was the only way to satisfy the numbers. Arenas are about as big as we get these days but I like theatres. I would love to do [a] set down in a theatre."
Listen to the full interview with Roger on Absolute Radio on May 17 from 10pm and visit Absoluteradio.co.uk/listen.

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has hinted that the band's London gig at Hyde Park could be their last.
The 'Evil Woman' hitmakers will headline the Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Festival on July 4, joining the likes of Soundgarden, Faith No More and Motörhead on the bill, and the musician thinks it could be the last time fans get to see them live on stage.
Speaking to Metal Hammer about the gig, Tony said: "It could be the last ever Sabbath show. I don't want it to be, but there's nothing really planned touring-wise after that show, so for all we know that could be it really. To be honest I don't want to be touring to this extent too much longer, because it makes me feel so bad."
The 66-year-old musician was diagnosed with lymphoma in January 2012 and is awaiting a check by doctors after undergoing treatment in March.
He said "I'm at a stage now where I have no support, which means I have to see whether the cancer is coming back or if it's still there or what.
"I just don't know. It's a bit of a worry. After we finish this tour I'll go in and have scan, so we'll see what that shows up."
Black Sabbath, also made up of Geezer Butler and
Ozzy Osbourne, are touring in support of their latest album, '13', which hit the number one spot on the Official UK Album Chart to become their first hit record in nearly 43 years.

The Foo Fighters will star in a documentary following the making of their new album.
The five-piece band have announced an eight-part TV series airing on HBO and directed by the band's frontman Dave Grohl.
Each episode will follow the 'Rope' rockers' journey to a different US city - Chicago, Austin, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans, Washington DC and New York - where they'll visit legendary studios to record tracks for their eighth album.
The documentary will act as a follow up to Dave's award-winning directorial debut 'Sound City' which followed the history of the recording studio 'Sound City Studios' in Los Angeles, California and opened to commercial and critical acclaim in January last year.
Michael Lombardo, president of HBO Programming, said: "Dave's heartfelt passion for this project is contagious and his talent as a musician and filmmaker is undeniable. We are excited to go on this journey with him and the Foo Fighters for this insider's look at how regional music inspired them to create their own new music."
The album - which is yet to be named - has been described by Dave as "a love letter to the history of American music" - and features vocals from local musical guests from each of the eight cities.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe about their latest offering, he previously said: "I know what it sounds like and I honestly think the entire concept is really going to take people by surprise and it sounds nuts."

The Beach Boys will embark on a tour to mark the 50th anniversary of their single 'Fun Fun Fun'.
The 'Good Vibrations' hitmakers have announced they will be celebrating the landmark anniversary of their 1964 track by reuniting for a number of shows in the United States and the United Kingdom, and percussionist Mike Love has confessed they're doing it for their fans.
He said: "Year after year, it's been a great source of inspiration to see the happiness our music has brought to multiple generations of Beach Boys fans in so many parts of the world."
The band will introduce singer and guitarist Jeffrey Foskett, who's worked with the group since 1981, as a permanent member of the group as they begin their tour in Louisville, Kentucky on May 24 followed by a number of performances at European festivals, including two shows at London's Hampton Court Palace in June.
Foskett replaces Love's son Christian who left the band to pursue a solo career, and the official line-up for the anniversary tour will include Love, Foskett, David Marks and founding members Al Jardine and Brian Wilson.
The band previously reunited in 2012 to mark the 50th anniversary of the group itself.