Charli XCX Quotes

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.

I love Eighties rock.

I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.

I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so much.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.

I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'

I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.

My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey.

I was born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic. And so those artists - Madonna, Prince, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston - you still hear those songs all the time. And there's such a distinctive style - the clothes, the shoulder pads, the big hair, the perm.

The '80s were wild. The hair, the clothes.

The '80s, no matter what kind of wacky fashion or whatever else that went on in the '80s, the songs that came out of it, there was really great songwriting, in my opinion.

Edge was part of my fascination with KISS and Cheap Trick and Queen, mixed with wrestling.

I like Journey, Bad Company, Soundgarden and Aerosmith.

My mom loves the '80s. I grew up hearing a lot about the '80s.

The '80s definitely influence my music in a big way.

I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

When I first got into the music scene, I was inspired by different songwriters. I like to dress from the '50s and '60s. I like to paint a picture of that era through my music and clothes. I am inspired by a whole a lot of things, from doo-wop to gospel and soul music.

I'm like an '80s kid. I was born in the mid-'70s. By the time the '80s kicked in, I'm listening to Dead Kennedys, but I'm also listening to Simple Minds.