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

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.

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.

What galled him most was the presumption of these writer types, as if there weren’t actual people in the world, with jobs to do, appointments to keep, wives to appease, but only so much material.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.