Charli XCX Quotes
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I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.
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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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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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If you're in control of everything, then no matter what it is, you can make that feminine.
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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 think the best artists are the ones who constantly change - Madonna, Bowie.
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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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'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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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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Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.
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To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I'm on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don't think I perform in the classic 'pop star' sort of way. I'm very active on stage; I always end up dripping in sweat afterwards. It's always like a full-on, wild performance, so that's pretty much like my exercise, I would say.
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I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.
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When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.
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I feel like I'm a pop star without being a diva.
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My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.
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I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
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I spent a lot of my teenage years experimenting with who I was as a person and not really getting it right. And then, I think, I realized that I just had to chill out in life.
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I love In-N-Out!
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I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.
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I always think about fashion when it comes to making music and music videos... what the colours will look like, what the material will be, how will it work with the sound of the music.
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Most of my favorite artists are strong females.
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I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.
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I know when I've written a good song when I can imagine the video. If I can't imagine the video straight away, I'm not gonna put it on my album.
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On my first album, I felt like, if it was going to be turned into a movie, it would have been directed by Sofia Coppola. She creates this kind of pastel-colored palette that's very whimsical but also very stagnant. And that's really how I heard the record.