23 June 2026
Olivia Rodrigo gets “so much joy” from “walking to the grocery store”.
Olivia Rodrigo loves walking to the grocery store
The pop star has confessed she’s had an “abnormal” life for a “really long time” since starting her career as a child actor and she’s now revealed she takes a lot of pleasure from the simple things such as taking walks and picking up shopping.
She told Pitchfork magazine: “I was a child actor, and I think my life has been very abnormal for a really long time. I just get so much joy from walking to the grocery store … or, like, going and meeting my friends at the bar.
“You’re kind of incentivized not to do stuff like that – it’s easier to stay inside, stay insular. I’m trying to expand outward.”
In the interview, Olivia also revealed she’s learned to embrace the “lighter” side of life as a pop star, saying: “I take my work very seriously. My art is something I take very seriously, and writing is something I take very seriously. But also nothing is really that important …
“It’s so lucky we’re not brain surgeons! Nobody lives or dies if we make a mistake. I think I’ve been feeling that lightness lately – we live charmed lives.”
Olivia has previously confessed she loves spending time in London because she’s able to walk about and visit pubs without being bothered.
She told the BBC: “I feel so normal here, very adult. I can walk to the pub and meet friends. It’s a city where spontaneity is really encouraged.
“People are very social here, in a way that they’re not in Southern California.”
Olivia – who was born and raised in California – has even learned how to cope with the rain in Britain. She joked: “It wouldn’t be a proper English summer without it.”
Olivia previously explained she feels like she’s the “best version” of herself in London even writing a huge chunk of her new album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, in the city.
The singer – who previously dated London-born actor Louis Partridge – told Dazed: “I’m the best version of myself when I’m there. I wrote lots of the album in London; lots [of it] was inspired by my time there.
“Maybe it’s because it rains so much that all you want to do is be inside with the guitar and write.”
Olivia also admitted to feeling inspired by Manchester, the home of bands such as Oasis, The Smiths, Joy Division, and The Stone Roses.
She said: “I spent some time in Manchester a few years ago and it was so rainy I was like, ‘No wonder so many great bands come out of Manchester!’”
