Alessia Cara Quotes
Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.
With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.
I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.
If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.
The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.
It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.
I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.
YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."
The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.
It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.
Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they moved to Italy.
Having a mom as a hairdresser was really awesome: I was always her test dummy. I've had every style, every color you could imagine.
It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.
I've never hosted a party in my life, not even my own birthday party. I'd feel really uncomfortable saying, 'Hey everybody, let's celebrate me!' But I'm not antisocial. I don't hate people.
The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?
'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.
It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.
Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that, ' and then you do it. It's being happy with what you do and doing what you love every day.
I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.