Charli XCX Quotes
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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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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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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'm not super easy to talk to a lot of the time. I'm just kind of weird.
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Most of my youth I spent being obsessed with Baby Spice, so she was my favorite for a really long time. Now that I'm older, I actually really like Posh Spice the best. Nineties Victoria Beckham is perfection, I think.
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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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For me, I'm very visually inspired. I'm more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.
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I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.
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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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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 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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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 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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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've been really inspired by Paris Hilton, small dogs, and a glitter, luxe lifestyle.
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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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If you're in control of everything, then no matter what it is, you can make that feminine.
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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.
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I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.
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I really want to work with Chris Martin. I think he's a genius.
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Being nice is awesome. You have more fun; you meet more people.
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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.