Charli XCX Quotes
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I think the best artists are the ones who constantly change - Madonna, Bowie.
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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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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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It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.
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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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I'll listen to 3 artists on repeat for more than a month.
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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 feel like I'm a pop star without being a diva.
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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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I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.
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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 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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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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Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.
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My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.
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Most of my favorite artists are strong females.
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I love In-N-Out!
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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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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 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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I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.
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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.
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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.