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 feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.
I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.
The XCX really stands for 'kiss Charli kiss,' which is unbelievably crap.
I want to share the experiences I've had.
I love karaoke and totally hog the mic when I go out and do it with my friends.
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.
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.
I think debate is good. Everyone has an opinion, and it's definitely healthy to voice those.
I get on with people. I don't hang out with people who aren't nice. It's like, be real or go home.
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.
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.
In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.
From the moment I stepped into this industry, I've always had to fight for my ideas and for my voice to be heard.
The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.
I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.
I think big brows are pretty cool.
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.
I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.
I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.
When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.
I've always said that if I couldn't be myself, first I'd want to be Eminem and then a Disney kid.
There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.
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.
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.
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've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.
All my favourite pop songs are the most stupid ones, the ones that are the most obvious.
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 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.
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.
Making my first record, I was really inspired by all the color palettes Sofia Coppola has in her films.
I've been really inspired by Paris Hilton, small dogs, and a glitter, luxe lifestyle.
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'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.
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.
I started writing my own things when I was about 8.
I wrote a song for Icona Pop which boosted my confidence quite a lot.
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 just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.
If you're in control of everything, then no matter what it is, you can make that feminine.
Most of my favorite artists are strong females.
You should respect the people you are around.
My voice is different, but I don't think I'm the only one with a different take on pop music.
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.
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.
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.
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 love In-N-Out!
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.
