Quotes by Charli XCX

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

My one thing is respect. I dont care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.

When youre growing up, I think theres this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But Ive come to realize that isnt cool.

Theres something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.

I think big brows are pretty cool.

I think its cool to be a rock star I dont think there are many. There arent many who speak out and take risks. And I think thats 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?

Im lucky I have really cool parents.

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.

Ive 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 dont 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.

Ive 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 wasnt right. Shes cool, but it just wasnt right.

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 cant remember how I got there, but my teacher said hed have to fail me because it had mild nudity.

If theres intelligence behind an opinion, then Im all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - thats just not me.

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

I love that ...Baby One More Time video, to be honest; its amazing.

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.

Im inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and theyre not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I dont feel like shes just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like its really emotional.