Charli Xcx Quotes

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.

~ Charli Xcx

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.

~ Charli Xcx

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

~ Charli Xcx

I think big brows are pretty cool.

~ Charli Xcx

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?

~ Charli Xcx

I'm lucky I have really cool parents.

~ Charli Xcx

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.

~ Charli Xcx

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

~ Charli Xcx

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

~ Charli Xcx

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

~ Charli Xcx

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

~ Charli Xcx

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.

~ Charli Xcx

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.

~ Charli Xcx

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.

~ Charli Xcx

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

~ Charli Xcx

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

~ Charli Xcx

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.

~ Charli Xcx

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 not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.

~ Charli Xcx

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 parents got me for my 10th birthday.

~ Charli Xcx

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 painting of what's in my mind.

~ Charli Xcx

My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.

~ Charli Xcx