Charli XCX Quotes

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.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think, 'All right, that one out of these seven is really good; it's a keeper.' But on this second album, to be honest, I probably wrote about 50 songs where I was just trying to write a hit.

To me, I don't care if I co-write or if I write alone. If it's a great song and it makes it to the record, then that's what is supposed to come, you know what I mean.

I try to make the songs as good as I can - the way I like it, you know? And I guess my taste sometimes happens to be what other people, particularly radio programmers, like too.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

Even if it's a song I know isn't gonna do that well, I'm dropping it as a piece of art, so I always want sick visuals to go with it.

I think the work process' - composers do not get enough time to make a good song. That's the one thing which needs to be changed.

'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

Me and Tory Lanez got good chemistry together. We could make a song so easy, but we always like to figure out what we're really doing. We can make a good song, but it gotta make sense.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.