United Kingdom, June 6 -- Lorde "felt scared" at the height of her early fame.

The 28-year-old singer had barely finished school when she released the hit single Royals and recalled feeling "really overwhelmed" following the launch of her second album because she realised that her hobby had very quickly become her job and become "too big" for her liking.

Speaking on the Therapuss podcast, she said: "I feel like at the end of Melodrama, I had this kind of...not meltdown but I remember feeling all of a sudden that this thing that was my hobby that I did after school was now my employment.

"It had gotten too big. I was a kid and I just felt this like like 'Aah!', I felt scared. I didn't know...I was getting that little bit older, and that...