Charli XCX Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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I love In-N-Out!
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My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.
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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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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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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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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 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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I always Google myself. It's horrible.
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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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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 that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.
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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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If I can sing along to it, it's pop music.
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Most of my favorite artists are strong females.
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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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I think the best artists are the ones who constantly change - Madonna, Bowie.
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I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say what's in my brain, and sometimes it's great, and sometimes it's terrible.