Charli XCX

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

“Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.”

“I'm not a diva, and I'm not mean to people or have weird rules.”

“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.”

“To me, 'X Factor' is like Vegas. Fake, twisted, but kind of wonderful. Maybe I'm sick, but I find the whole thing quite funny sometimes.”

“You should respect the people you are around.”

“When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.”

“My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my music career at all.”

“I really just want to change the way women think about themselves.”

“Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.”

“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. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.”

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

“When I got signed, I had just turned 16. I felt like I had to continuously have these confrontations with older men who were doubting my ideas because I was a woman, because I was 16.”

“On my first album, I felt like, if it was going to be turned into a movie, it would have been directed by Sofia Coppola. She creates this kind of pastel-colored palette that's very whimsical but also very stagnant. And that's really how I heard the record.”

“I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.”

“I hate the idea of people thinking that I'm just a little girl who goes into studios with pop producers, and they work their magic.”

“For me, I'm very visually inspired. I'm more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.”

“I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.”

“Some people think of feminine as just being pretty and quiet and sweet, but I also think being feminine is being angry and also being sexy and aggressive and passionate.”

“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.”