Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Charli XCX - Page 2

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

The first show I did with Coldplay was really scary.

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

Just because I might be bored doesn't mean I have to look boring. I'd rather look fabulous, like I'm having a great time.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

My favorite video of all time is 'Say You'll Be There' by the Spice Girls. That's the best styling ever. If I could dress like that every day, I would.

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

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

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

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

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 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'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.

My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my music career at all.

Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.

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.

A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.

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

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.

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

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.

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

'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.

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.

It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.

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

I love Tinashe.

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

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.

There are days where I can go into a room full of people, talk to every single person, and feel completely at ease, and feel like making every single person laugh, and feel like everyone's having a great time. There are other times where I go into a room of people, and I literally want to run and hide.

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

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

I'll listen to 3 artists on repeat for more than a month.

I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.

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

When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.

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

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

I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.

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 good at being a picture-perfect pop star, happy all the time. If I'm having a bad day, I can't pretend. I'm always a bit unhappy, but that's just me. I like dwelling in my sadness.

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

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

I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write about first... it just sort of comes out like word vomit.

I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.

I'm not interested in the idea of celebrity.

'90s fashion is awesome. Best of both worlds - you had power pop, like the Spice Girls and Shampoo. But then you had Nirvana and Hole. And you also had '90s dance music like N-Trance, who kind of blended both.

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'd love to work with Cher Lloyd; that would be my dream person to work with.

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

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

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

I'm lucky I have really cool parents.

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.