Charli XCX Quotes
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Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.
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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 dream collaboration would be with someone like Bjork, Kate Bush, or even Dionne Warwick.
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Making my first record, I was really inspired by all the color palettes Sofia Coppola has in her films.
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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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If you're in control of everything, then no matter what it is, you can make that feminine.
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I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.
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I feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.
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I want to share the experiences I've had.
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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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Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.
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To me, 'X Factor' is like Vegas. Fake, twisted, but kind of wonderful. Maybe I'm sick, but I find the whole thing quite funny sometimes.
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A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
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I'm lucky I have really cool parents.
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From the moment I stepped into this industry, I've always had to fight for my ideas and for my voice to be heard.
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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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I never dress for the occasion correctly because I hate fashion rules. They're so boring.
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I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.
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I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.
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I've heard people say to me, 'How can you claim to be a feminist when you dress like that?' I wear a lot of slip dresses and nightwear and stuff. People always question my credibility because of that: 'Oh, are you selling sex? Are you doing this or that to be recognized more or to sell your music?' No, it's just a fashion thing for me.
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I want my music, whether it's sung by other people or sung by myself, to affect the way the Top 40 radio sounds. I want to heavily influence it with things that have come directly from my brain.
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I know how to win people over if things aren't going my way.
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I think the process of 'I Love It' becoming such a big song opened my eyes to sides of the industry that I'd never been aware of, which I wasn't so into.
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'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.