Alessia Cara Quotes
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Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.
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YouTube is my first love.
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I wasn't even popular at school.
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I always find power in struggles. You end up a lot happier that way.
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I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.
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As a young girl, I'm always going to have to work a bit harder to prove myself; that's just reality. But having to work harder makes me feel like girls are stronger, too.
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I had a fairly regular childhood. I was a pretty boring kid. I didn't do much. I was always thinking, but I didn't really say a lot.
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As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?
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I would love to host 'Saturday Night Live.' That's one of my goals in life - just putting that out there. I don't know if I'm funny enough, but we'll see.
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I don't know how to talk to people I don't know.
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Talent is talent, but fashion is separate, and it shouldn't be used to judge me as a singer.
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Every time I sing, it it's a reminder to myself that I have to be confident.
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My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the Italian culture. I grew up around it. My parents speak Italian, and I speak Italian.
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Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we're just trying to figure life out, and we don't know much at all.
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I never really necessarily liked being quiet.
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I wanted to get through high school anonymously.
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I never thought I'd have a career because of YouTube.
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I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.
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It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It's like, 'You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?' It just proves how much people are alike.
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I would never wear anything because someone told me to.
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Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.
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The biggest critics are in the comments online. People are so judgmental of me. It's like, 'Why is she wearing this?' or 'Why isn't she wearing that?' or 'Why does she talk like that?' That's the worst because they're judging for no reason.
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I'm here to make music; I'm not here be a fashion model.
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I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.