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 Cool
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 Cool
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 Amazing
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 Birthday
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 Amazing
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 Cool
I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop. -Charli XCX Cool
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 Cool
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 Cool
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 Teacher
The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing. -Charli XCX Amazing
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 Work
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. -Charli XCX Cool
I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record. -Charli XCX Cool
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 Respect
