Charli XCX Quotes

My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my music career at all.

Charli XCX

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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

J. C. Watts
- Up
- Growing
- Action
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

Garth Nix
- People
- Good
- Love
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

V. S. Naipaul
- Up
- World
- Children
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

Yoko Ono
- Music
- Art
- Power
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

Ian Anderson
- People
- Music
- Trying
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Oscar Wilde
- People
- Past
- Should