Top 75 Charli XCX Quotes

I believe I deserve everything that could maybe happen. And I don’t think that’s a cocky thing to say because I’ve worked really hard, and I’ve never bitten the hand that fed me, and I’ve always been really respectful.

You can’t like everything! You hate some stuff! Say what you hate! Like, I hate Pitbull, and I don’t care!

I’m going to build an empire. I’m always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.

I’m not a diva, and I’m not mean to people or have weird rules.

Obviously, getting a number in the charts is a nice thing but the cherry on the cake rather than the main cake.

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.

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.

I like befriending my collaborators because I’d rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I’ve been really inspired by Paris Hilton, small dogs, and a glitter, luxe lifestyle.

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.

I think debate is good. Everyone has an opinion, and it’s definitely healthy to voice those.

When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.

I don’t feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it’s all genuinely clever, good music.

I never dress for the occasion correctly because I hate fashion rules. They’re so boring.

I’m a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she‘s such an incredible artist.

I’ve always said that if I couldn’t be myself, first I’d want to be Eminem and then a Disney kid.

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.

I always Google myself. It’s horrible.

Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body… whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.

The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.

If I can sing along to it, it’s pop music.

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.

I actually think it doesn’t even matter what age you are or what sex – though that does play into it sometimes – you always have to fight in any kind of creative world because nobody knows your own brain and your own creative ideas better than you do.

My family is average. I didn’t have a crazy life as a kid.

If I’m really honest, I can’t cook. I’m, like, the worst, worst, worst cook in the world.

I made video art for quite a long time, and I made this video covering myself in burgers and dancing to Major Lazer and doing covers of Britney Spears songs… I can’t remember how I got there, but my teacher said he’d have to fail me because it had mild nudity.

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.

I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists… eventually.

I do appreciate the ’80s as an era, the general sounds and aesthetics of the era. The Cure, that whole kind of image is really kind of amazing, I think. The power ballads and how everything sparkles and words are really dramatic. Huge drums, things like that. I do really find it inspiring.

I’m just not very good at being happy all the time.

I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it’s not just about getting on stage and singing a song.

I love Tinashe.

I really love Grimes, Niki & the Dove, stuff like that.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves.

I love that ‘…Baby One More Time’ video, to be honest; it’s amazing.

I really want to work with Chris Martin. I think he’s a genius.

My philosophy is to treat people how you want to be treated.

I’ve passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn’t right. She’s cool, but it just wasn’t right.

My one thing is respect. I don’t care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you – the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.

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.

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.

I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.

I feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.

To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks.

For me, I’m very visually inspired. I’m more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.

Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that’s not my personal goal.

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.

I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.

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.

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?

I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I’ll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I’ll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.

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.

I think the best artists are the ones who constantly change – Madonna, Bowie.

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.

The XCX really stands for ‘kiss Charli kiss,’ which is unbelievably crap.

I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.

I know how to win people over if things aren’t going my way.

I’ve always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

One thing I don’t understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that’s terrible and boring.

I’m actually really bad at the Internet. I’m never scouring it to find new artists or new anything.

I wrote a song for Icona Pop which boosted my confidence quite a lot.

I quite like doing laundry. I find it quite like relaxing.

Anyone that thinks ‘pop’ is a dirty word is living in the ’90s.

I’m lucky I have really cool parents.

I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

I feel like, throughout ‘True Romance,’ I was unsure of myself in terms of songwriting. Even though it was my voice, I feel there were a lot of other voices on that record, too.

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.

I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so than in the Sixties and Seventies, when there was an overriding look and sound.

I feel like the U.K. is a better breeding ground for pop, partially because the radio play is more broad and open to new ideas and sounds.

I don’t want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

When I got signed, I had just turned 16. I felt like I had to continuously have these confrontations with older men who were doubting my ideas because I was a woman, because I was 16.

I’m not super easy to talk to a lot of the time. I’m just kind of weird.