Alessia Cara Quotes
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I just want to keep my normal life for as long as possible.
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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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We should just know that we can all create this special, safe place within ourselves that we can feel comfortable in and that doesn't necessarily have to be with other people.
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Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that,' and then you do it. It's being happy with what you do and doing what you love every day.
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Frank Ocean would be incredible; I'd love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I'm like, 'Why didn't I think of this?'
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Everywhere I go, every city, they're always like, 'What's in the water in Canada? What's in the water in Toronto?'
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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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I don't think a lot of artists have the freedom that I have when it comes to dressing in general.
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I'm unpolished, I guess.
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I don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I really want my things to last, and I want my songs and my bodies of work to resonate with people. I want to hit people - at least make a dent in them. I want to make a mark somehow.
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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 loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.
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For some reason, I'm constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I've never understood that. That's been very hard.
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When I was shopping around trying to get signed, I made it a point to say, 'This is who I am.' I dress the way I normally dress, and I just wanted to find a label that would accept me for that.
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I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.
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I was always singing around the house, even when I was two years old.
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I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds.
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My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.
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Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.
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I was always so scared to sing in front of people. That was kind of my weird thing.
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I see songs in colors; I see days of the week. Each day of the week I relate to a gender, and it's very weird. I can taste words sometimes. It's very strange.
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You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.
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The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.
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I was a troublemaking kid.