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Charli XCX Quotes

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: August 2, 1992

Topics

Music Cool Never Write Always Pop

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

Parents Born Living Florida Lived

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

Poetry Name You Want Kind Way

One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of the most potent antidepressants that I've ever had. And on the other hand, there are moments when I feel imprisoned by the reality that I can no longer make my decisions just for myself, that I have to consider the interests of others.

Children Myself Simple Reality Feel

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Experience Me Winners Up Prize Been

I try to do something physical every day. I don't go heavy every day, though.

Day Every Day Go Try Heavy Physical

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

Animal People Say Never Same Like

I don't ever want to become Bill Maher where I have to find some strong opinion on something just because it's in the news. That's the guy that comes off like you have to be angry every week about new topics and snotty about something. That's what I'm trying to avoid.

Angry Opinion Strong Week You Find

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

Music Community Money Making Money

What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Children Eyes Simple Child You Find

I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

Walk Someone You Find Fragrance Out

My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

Faith Potential Economy Low Economic

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

Railroad Never Abandoned Lived

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