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I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.

Charli XCX

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Charli XCX
Age: 32
Born: 1992
Born: August 2
Composer
Music Executive
Music Video Director
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Charlotte Emma Aitchison
Away
Police
Back
Songs
Come
Stand
Right
Hear
Voice
Song
Comes
Running

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I started writing my own things when I was about 8. I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground. Then I realized, Oh god, my career's going nowhere, so I looked in the Yellow Pages and phoned up the first cheap studio that I found and started recording.
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I always look at my favourite photographs or favourite movies by James Bidgood or Sofia Coppola before I write my songs - they put me in the right frame of mind.
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I have a dark side. I think everyone does.
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[My mom] worries about me going and taking drugs, whereas my dad advises me on what drugs to take and what ones not to take. So, they're very different.
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I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make. I was just making raps and stuff. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.
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I've never been to New Zealand actually. All I know is that there's a lot of greenery there. I'd love to come and play a show there sometime soon for sure!
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I know some people are like I'm depressed and I'm a struggling artist and that really works for some people, but that doesn't work for me. I have to be really happy, even when I'm writing my depressing songs I have to come through that stage before I can write. I have to be in a good place. I'm a positive person.
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I love the rawness in fashion.
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I want to create an experience with my music.
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The music I'm making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but still quite black.
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I was really selfish, and I didn't want to listen to anyone. Then I started working with some really amazing people, traveling more, and figuring out who I was as a person - looking at different things, listening to different music.
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When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible.
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Every time I make another record and every time I get a year older, I become more and more confident in who I am and more in tune with what I want as a person. I think it's the same for anyone in any walk of life. You just grow with experience and become more confident in exploring new things.
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Everyone's just a freak, but some people are trying to hide it and some people embrace it.
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I've definitely become more commercially successful. I think everything has changed over the past two years. People seem to take me seriously now as a songwriter for other artists and as an artist, which is funny to me because I always thought I was good. I guess that's the main change, which is pretty interesting.
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I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!
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I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective.
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I've been thinking about where I want to take my live show. I want everything in it to be pink, gold, and black. I don't want people to feel any other colors, like brown or yellow.
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I feel like I have an affiliation with the '90s. I feel like a lot of things going on in fashion and pop culture were loud and outlandish.
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A lot of females are openly discussing their experiences as women in the music industry.
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