Charli XCX Quotes

Everyone's just a freak, but some people are trying to hide it and some people embrace it.

I really don’t care what people think.

I have a dark side. I think everyone does.

I want to have tampons as merch that say ‘Periods are punk.'

Live in the moment. Feel everything you want to feel. And maybe have a couple of drinks if you're nervous, I guess.

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.

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 like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that.

A great song can make you cry and transport you to another dimension.

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.

I like Lady Gaga's music and I think her fashion is great, but I saw her on a chat show and I wanted to punch her in the face.

[My mom] worries about me going and taking drugs, whereas my dad advises me on what drugs to take and what ones not to take. So, they're very different.

I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.

I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make. I was just making raps and stuff. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

I love the rawness in fashion.

I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective.

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind.

I've never been to New Zealand actually. All I know is that there's a lot of greenery there. I'd love to come and play a show there sometime soon for sure!

I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!

Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.

A lot of females are openly discussing their experiences as women in the music industry.

I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music I think about gold, blood rushing.

I'm someone who admires artists like Madonna and David Bowie, who really change their sound drastically between each record.

I feel like I have an affiliation with the '90s. I feel like a lot of things going on in fashion and pop culture were loud and outlandish.

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.

When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.

I feel like the worst fashion moments of the '90s were kind of the best.

The music I'm making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but still quite black.

I've been thinking about where I want to take my live show. I want everything in it to be pink, gold, and black. I don't want people to feel any other colors, like brown or yellow.

I want to create an experience with my music.

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.

You choke my throatWith words of wonderYou make it hard to breatheYour love's so coldJust like an arrowPierced through my skin I bleed

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.

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.

There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.

I think big brows are pretty cool.

I think it's cool to be a rock star I don't think there are many. There aren't many who speak out and take risks. And I think that's important.

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'm lucky I have really cool parents.

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

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

I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.

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.

The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.

My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.