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I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.
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I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.
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I feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.
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I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.
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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.
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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?
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I spent a lot of my teenage years experimenting with who I was as a person and not really getting it right. And then, I think, I realized that I just had to chill out in life.
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I know how to win people over if things aren't going my way.
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Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.
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Obviously, getting a number in the charts is a nice thing but the cherry on the cake rather than the main cake.
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A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
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I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write about first... it just sort of comes out like word vomit.
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'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.
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I never dress for the occasion correctly because I hate fashion rules. They're so boring.
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I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.
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It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.
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I was 15 when I started making music properly.
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I'm lucky I have really cool parents.
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The first show I did with Coldplay was really scary.
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I really love Grimes, Niki & the Dove, stuff like that.
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In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like LaChapelle creates an entirely new and unique visual for their work, and that's what I'd like to do with the Charli XCX world as well.
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I feel like the U.K. is a better breeding ground for pop, partially because the radio play is more broad and open to new ideas and sounds.
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I'm just not very good at being happy all the time.
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I'm not good at being a picture-perfect pop star, happy all the time. If I'm having a bad day, I can't pretend. I'm always a bit unhappy, but that's just me. I like dwelling in my sadness.
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Just because I might be bored doesn't mean I have to look boring. I'd rather look fabulous, like I'm having a great time.
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'90s fashion is awesome. Best of both worlds - you had power pop, like the Spice Girls and Shampoo. But then you had Nirvana and Hole. And you also had '90s dance music like N-Trance, who kind of blended both.
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My favorite video of all time is 'Say You'll Be There' by the Spice Girls. That's the best styling ever. If I could dress like that every day, I would.
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My dream collaboration would be with someone like Bjork, Kate Bush, or even Dionne Warwick.
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I feel like, throughout 'True Romance,' I was unsure of myself in terms of songwriting. Even though it was my voice, I feel there were a lot of other voices on that record, too.
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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.
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I really just want to change the way women think about themselves.
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If I can sing along to it, it's pop music.
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I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
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I love that '...Baby One More Time' video, to be honest; it's amazing.
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I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
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I'm not interested in the idea of celebrity.
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My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my music career at all.
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I love Tinashe.
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I really want to work with Chris Martin. I think he's a genius.
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Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.
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I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say what's in my brain, and sometimes it's great, and sometimes it's terrible.
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
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One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.
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I'll listen to 3 artists on repeat for more than a month.
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I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.
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I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.
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I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.
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I hate the idea of people thinking that I'm just a little girl who goes into studios with pop producers, and they work their magic.
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I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
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