Charli XCX
My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Birthday
I'm not a diva, and I'm not mean to people or have weird rules.
I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.
Being nice is awesome. You have more fun; you meet more people.
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.
I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.
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 like to keep it really warm and glittery.
Some people think of feminine as just being pretty and quiet and sweet, but I also think being feminine is being angry and also being sexy and aggressive and passionate.
The XCX really stands for 'kiss Charli kiss,' which is unbelievably crap.
I'd love to work with Cher Lloyd; that would be my dream person to work with.
You can't like everything! You hate some stuff! Say what you hate! Like, I hate Pitbull, and I don't care!
The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.
I don't want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.
I've been really inspired by Paris Hilton, small dogs, and a glitter, luxe lifestyle.
My philosophy is to treat people how you want to be treated.
Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.
My family is average. I didn't have a crazy life as a kid.
My hair is naturally super curly. But I really don't do so much to it. I just sleep on it and see what happens.
People would always ask me how I came up with my music and what it felt like to make music, and I would always see colours, and then I found out that that was synaesthesia. It helps me understand songs and what I like.
There are some signs that can indicate she might be interested. Woman might do subconscious things like play with their hair or orient their body towards your direction.
Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.
Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.
To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks.
When I was younger, I was quite scared of a red lip. But I started listening to '60s French ye-ye pop when I was making 'Sucker.' I was looking at Brigitte Bardot and those kinds of girls. When they were dressed up, it was often a bold red lip.
I think big brows are pretty cool.
I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.
I love In-N-Out!
Making my first record, I was really inspired by all the color palettes Sofia Coppola has in her films.
On my first album, I felt like, if it was going to be turned into a movie, it would have been directed by Sofia Coppola. She creates this kind of pastel-colored palette that's very whimsical but also very stagnant. And that's really how I heard the record.
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.
From the moment I stepped into this industry, I've always had to fight for my ideas and for my voice to be heard.
When I got signed, I had just turned 16. I felt like I had to continuously have these confrontations with older men who were doubting my ideas because I was a woman, because I was 16.
I actually think it doesn't even matter what age you are or what sex - though that does play into it sometimes - you always have to fight in any kind of creative world because nobody knows your own brain and your own creative ideas better than you do.
In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.
I definitely went through a phase where I wanted to be a fashion designer when I was younger... But I certainly wasn't very good at it.
Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.
I always love wearing Vivienne Westwood. Her dresses just seem to fit me perfectly, and she makes dresses for girls with curves - I love that.
I always think about fashion when it comes to making music and music videos... what the colours will look like, what the material will be, how will it work with the sound of the music.
All my favourite pop songs are the most stupid ones, the ones that are the most obvious.
I think the process of 'I Love It' becoming such a big song opened my eyes to sides of the industry that I'd never been aware of, which I wasn't so into.
My voice is different, but I don't think I'm the only one with a different take on pop music.
I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.
I get on with people. I don't hang out with people who aren't nice. It's like, be real or go home.
You should respect the people you are around.
Females should stand by each other, especially in an industry which seems to try so hard to pin us up against each other and make us fight. It's not about that for me. I refuse to be sucked into a twisted world of insecurity and lose who I am.
I think debate is good. Everyone has an opinion, and it's definitely healthy to voice those.
Most of my favorite artists are strong females.
I think it's awesome when a woman is in control of everything she's doing, especially in an industry like this where people think that doesn't happen often, but it really does - well, from my knowledge and how I manage my own project.
If you're in control of everything, then no matter what it is, you can make that feminine.