Charli XCX Quotes

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.

Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

My main goal was to be a cinematographer. I was making short films, and the plan was to keep uploading them on Twitter and build a fanbase there. One day, I just started making music for fun. When I made 'Dat $tick,' it blew up, and I saw the potential in that.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.

In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get it out there.

I'm not a Soundcloud rapper anymore.

I just want to work on music and make some new stars. I'm not interested in being a star.

10 Summers isn't just a label, it's a lifestyle.

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.