Alessia Cara Quotes
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This industry kind of forces you to grow up very quickly.
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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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Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.
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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'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.
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I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.
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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 was a very strange child.
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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'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.
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I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.
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I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.
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Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle with every day.
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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 think we all have the right to feel 100 percent beautiful and 100 percent confident without pleasing anybody 'cause we're not here for anybody else.
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I don't wear a lot of makeup ever, even when I do interviews or when I'm on TV. I just keep it me, and I think it's important to show people I'm a regular person and regular people are beautiful, too.
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Maybe I'm not a typical pop star, but I don't think there's a mould for a pop star or singer. You can do whatever you want.
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You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.
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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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It's hard to consider myself one when a lot of my fans and people who are calling me a role model are people my age and sometimes older than me. I feel like they're at the same walk of life that I'm in right now, and they can probably teach me things about life, too.
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I think fame is such a scary thing, and it's something I can never understand. It's terrifying, but it's the only way I get to do what I love every day, you know?
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When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.
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Having a mom as a hairdresser was really awesome: I was always her test dummy. I've had every style, every color you could imagine.
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I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.