Charli XCX Quotes

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

It's not a secret that I'm, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.

I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

I feel undefinable actually.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.