I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

Grace is a gift of God.

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.