Alessia Cara Quotes
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I actually didn't grow up watching 'Degrassi,' but I saw the commercials and knew the characters. I didn't realize that Drake was the guy from 'Degrassi.' I had to piece it together and go, 'Oh! He's Aubrey Graham.'
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Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.
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I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.
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I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.
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I just dress how I wanna dress. Not to say that I don't care about how I dress or that I'm a slob or anything like that... I just don't have to worry about the outside opinions of what people are saying.
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When I was eight, I told my best friend I got a Hilary Duff autograph, but I just signed it myself.
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I was a very strange child.
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When you're from an unknown place, I think it's hard for you to believe it's possible. You think you have to go to L.A. or New York to make it, but I don't think that's true. I'm glad to be an example that you can make it from where you are. All you need is talent and hard work.
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I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.
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I grew up in this little city called Brampton. It's pretty suburban - there's not a lot going on. In my neighbourhood, specifically, there weren't a lot of other kids so I would just spend a lot of time inside.
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That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.
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I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad that there's artists like Lorde and Raury and Kehlani because they're showing other people that young people can have an opinion and a voice and do really well with it. I'm glad I can be one of those people.
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If Ed Sheeran covered my songs, I would die. That would be unbelievable.
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All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that.
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I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.
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I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.
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In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone.
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It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that's perfectly fine, and that's amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I'd wear heels every day, and I'd strut around in a dress, but that's not me.
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I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.
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I barely have time to think. But the best way to stay grounded is to take it one day at a time.
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It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.
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Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.
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It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.
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I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.