Alessia Cara Quotes
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Cats are evil, and they hate me.
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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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This industry kind of forces you to grow up very quickly.
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Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.
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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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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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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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I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.
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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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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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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 think a lot of artists have the freedom that I have when it comes to dressing in general.
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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 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 was always singing around the house, even when I was two years old.
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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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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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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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The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.
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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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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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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'm unpolished, I guess.
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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.