Charli XCX Quotes
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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 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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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 a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.
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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 think what women think is sexy is what is sexy. Girls eating pizza are massively sexy.
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I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.
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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'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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There are days where I can go into a room full of people, talk to every single person, and feel completely at ease, and feel like making every single person laugh, and feel like everyone's having a great time. There are other times where I go into a room of people, and I literally want to run and hide.
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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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'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.
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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 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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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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Making my first record, I was really inspired by all the color palettes Sofia Coppola has in her films.
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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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I think I'm a girl's girl in the sense that I support women a lot, and I'm definitely all for girl power, but I think I'm quite a tomboy at heart - even though I love my fashion and dressing up, I think my essence is very boyish.
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I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.
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I don't want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.
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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'm lucky I have really cool parents.
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I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
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If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - that's just not me.