I don't want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.
Charli XCX
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.
I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
Being nice is awesome. You have more fun; you meet more people.
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.
I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.
I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.
My voice is different, but I don't think I'm the only one with a different take on pop music.
To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I'm on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don't think I perform in the classic 'pop star' sort of way. I'm very active on stage; I always end up dripping in sweat afterwards. It's always like a full-on, wild performance, so that's pretty much like my exercise, I would say.
I've heard people say to me, 'How can you claim to be a feminist when you dress like that?' I wear a lot of slip dresses and nightwear and stuff. People always question my credibility because of that: 'Oh, are you selling sex? Are you doing this or that to be recognized more or to sell your music?' No, it's just a fashion thing for me.
The XCX really stands for 'kiss Charli kiss,' which is unbelievably crap.
I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.
I think I'm a girl's girl in the sense that I support women a lot, and I'm definitely all for girl power, but I think I'm quite a tomboy at heart - even though I love my fashion and dressing up, I think my essence is very boyish.
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.
I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn't ever wanna progress out of that scene.
I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
'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.
I'll listen to 3 artists on repeat for more than a month.
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.
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'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 been really inspired by Paris Hilton, small dogs, and a glitter, luxe lifestyle.
I know when I've written a good song when I can imagine the video. If I can't imagine the video straight away, I'm not gonna put it on my album.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
I love karaoke and totally hog the mic when I go out and do it with my friends.
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.
My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.
Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.
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.
Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.
I've always said that if I couldn't be myself, first I'd want to be Eminem and then a Disney kid.
When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.
If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - that's just not me.
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 wrote a song for Icona Pop which boosted my confidence quite a lot.
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.
The first show I did with Coldplay was really scary.
There are some signs that can indicate she might be interested. Woman might do subconscious things like play with their hair or orient their body towards your direction.
I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.
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 was 15 when I started making music properly.
I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.
I think debate is good. Everyone has an opinion, and it's definitely healthy to voice those.
In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.
I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.
