I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

We may not have the power to change, but we have the power to move.

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

If you can be interested in other people you can own the world.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.

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