Charli XCX Quotes

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.

When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my pa...

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

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

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

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.

I'm lucky I have really cool parents.

I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and n...

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

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

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.

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

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

I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual...

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 a...

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.

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.