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.

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.

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.

Inner calmness and peace is more important that outer joy.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

I'll be honest, I like everything about my body.

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

The dream never stops But I see the end before I wake up.

I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will have policies designed for political rather than practical reasons.

Your word is your bond, you do what you say you're going to do.

Digital technology is the solvent leaching the glue out of all of our traditional institutions.

Trump is an internet troll.