Charli XCX Quotes
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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I'm not super easy to talk to a lot of the time. I'm just kind of weird.
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I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.
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I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.
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I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.
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I feel like when people meet me, I'm very much not what they expected I would be. I'm not a diva, and I'm not mean to people or have weird rules.
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All my favourite pop songs are the most stupid ones, the ones that are the most obvious.
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I'm not good at being a picture-perfect pop star, happy all the time. If I'm having a bad day, I can't pretend. I'm always a bit unhappy, but that's just me. I like dwelling in my sadness.
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I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?
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When I got signed, I had just turned 16. I felt like I had to continuously have these confrontations with older men who were doubting my ideas because I was a woman, because I was 16.
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When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.
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I get on with people. I don't hang out with people who aren't nice. It's like, be real or go home.
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I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so than in the Sixties and Seventies, when there was an overriding look and sound.
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I actually think it doesn't even matter what age you are or what sex - though that does play into it sometimes - you always have to fight in any kind of creative world because nobody knows your own brain and your own creative ideas better than you do.
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I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.
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Some people think of feminine as just being pretty and quiet and sweet, but I also think being feminine is being angry and also being sexy and aggressive and passionate.
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I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.
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If you're in control of everything, then no matter what it is, you can make that feminine.
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I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.
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My hair is naturally super curly. But I really don't do so much to it. I just sleep on it and see what happens.
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I hate the idea of people thinking that I'm just a little girl who goes into studios with pop producers, and they work their magic.
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There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.
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I think what women think is sexy is what is sexy. Girls eating pizza are massively sexy.