Charli XCX Quotes

Instead of letting anxiety run you, try voicing it. Voice it in your comedy. Voice it in a script. Just voice it, and it'll help you release it.

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.

Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.

Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette's, but I think it's partly an outlet because when I'm acting, I'm putting my mind, body, and soul into something, and that's one of the times during the day when I don't tic.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

Whenever you get nervous about anything, start dancing. You'll feel better.

The anxiety I get more when I'm not working. So actually work, for me, takes away my anxiety, and doing live TV, in that moment when you're consumed by something else, it takes away all of my thoughts. It distracts you!

Performing is the one time I don't have anxiety - surprisingly, right?

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

I had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I've gotten better at it, I've started to enjoy it. It's made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

It's definitely a reason I game so much: to forget about the pressures of fighting and the hardships of training and everything.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

Every time I'm feeling anxious, I go to my little meditation corner in my room and write down whatever I'm feeling. If I'm feeling terrible, I write that I'm feeling terrible and I accept that and I keep going, but I'm not going to wallow in that moment.

One thing I hear a lot is that people feel less stressed out after they watch 'Gourmet Makes.' There's a transference of their stress onto me.

Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.

Music is a saviour for me.

When I walk on stage, it's a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.

I started making art with art therapy. It's what I know how to do. I got a lot of criticism for that when I was in school. But I think it works for me.