Alessia Cara Quotes
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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 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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Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.
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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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I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.
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This industry kind of forces you to grow up very quickly.
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Cats are evil, and they hate me.
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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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In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.
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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 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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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 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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I was always singing around the house, even when I was two years old.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.
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I'm unpolished, I guess.
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I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds.