Alessia Cara Quotes
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I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.
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I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.
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When I write, I like squeezing as many words as possible into each bar - I've listened to the Fugees and Lauryn Hill for as long as I can remember, so probably a big chunk of it subconsciously comes from that.
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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'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.
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I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.
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We all just need to love ourselves and believe in ourselves.
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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 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.
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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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When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.
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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 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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I want to show people that I am comfortable enough to go on national television and just be myself.
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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 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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I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.
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I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.
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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 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 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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If Ed Sheeran covered my songs, I would die. That would be unbelievable.