Quotes from Charli XCX

I quite like doing laundry. I find it quite like relaxing.

I always Google myself. It's horrible.

'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 used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

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 love karaoke and totally hog the mic when I go out and do it with my friends.

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

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.

I'll listen to 3 artists on repeat for more than a month.

I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.

'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'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.

I don't want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.

There's something about girls together, uniting, that I just thought was cool.

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

I love the rawness in fashion.

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!

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 loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.

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.

There are days where I can go into a room full of people, talk to every single person, and feel completely at ease, and feel like making every single person laugh, and feel like everyone's having a great time. There are other times where I go into a room of people, and I literally want to run and hide.

The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.

One time, I gave Chris Martin a My Little Pony for good luck. He said, 'Oh, you should keep it,' but I was like, 'You guys probably need it a lot more than I do.' I said that to Coldplay!

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.