Charli XCX Quotes
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I know how to win people over if things aren't going my way.
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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.
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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 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 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 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 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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You can't like everything! You hate some stuff! Say what you hate! Like, I hate Pitbull, and I don't care!
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I wish I could rap! I wish I could rap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that... Twista. He's super fast.
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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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The XCX really stands for 'kiss Charli kiss,' which is unbelievably crap.
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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 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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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 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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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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I love that '...Baby One More Time' video, to be honest; it's amazing.
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I always Google myself. It's horrible.
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I love Tinashe.
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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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It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.
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Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.
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You should respect the people you are around.