Charli XCX Quotes
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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 think the best people are the ones who are just as nice and fun. This is really cheesy, but you only have one life - why spend most of it pretending to be cool?
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I quite like doing laundry. I find it quite like relaxing.
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I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what's in my mind.
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I think it's awesome when a woman is in control of everything she's doing, especially in an industry like this where people think that doesn't happen often, but it really does - well, from my knowledge and how I manage my own project.
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You should respect the people you are around.
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I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn't ever wanna progress out of that scene.
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I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
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I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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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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People would always ask me how I came up with my music and what it felt like to make music, and I would always see colours, and then I found out that that was synaesthesia. It helps me understand songs and what I like.
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There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.
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I always Google myself. It's horrible.
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Just because I might be bored doesn't mean I have to look boring. I'd rather look fabulous, like I'm having a great time.
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I'm lucky I have really cool parents.
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I think it's cool to be a rock star; I don't think there are many. There aren't many who speak out and take risks. And I think that's important.
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In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like LaChapelle creates an entirely new and unique visual for their work, and that's what I'd like to do with the Charli XCX world as well.
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Obviously, getting a number in the charts is a nice thing but the cherry on the cake rather than the main cake.
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I know how to win people over if things aren't going my way.
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Females should stand by each other, especially in an industry which seems to try so hard to pin us up against each other and make us fight. It's not about that for me. I refuse to be sucked into a twisted world of insecurity and lose who I am.
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One time, I gave Chris Martin a My Little Pony for good luck. He said, 'Oh, you should keep it,' but I was like, 'You guys probably need it a lot more than I do.' I said that to Coldplay!
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I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.