United Kingdom, Sept. 9 -- Lorde thinks pop music is "about the collective".

The 28-year-old singer has explained that she tries to provide some temporary relief to fans who are experiencing some "big, deep pains".

Lorde told Dazed: "I reread [Lois Lowry's] The Giver recently. I read it as a ten-year-old, and I reread it on the plane a couple of weeks ago and it really struck me. There's this figure in the community who feels all the pain that other people couldn't handle - absorbs it, holds it.

"Without being too f****** high-minded - I make pop music, I'm under no illusion - I think it's my job to get as close to these big, deep pains that we all feel as I can bear, and try and alchemise them into something that is beautiful and give...