I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.

I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.

I waited for my first kiss.

I guess there's a part of you that always wants to try something a little bit different than what you’ve done before.

One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.

What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

Life's too much fun to have it go in just one direction.

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

The worst thing that can happen to you today is "nothing" because anything else, either good or bad, can help you learn to live life to the fullest.

I like clothes that are easy to wear. I like to be comfortable and confident.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song.

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.