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

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.

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

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.

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.

To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain happiness. All of these evidences of success begin in the form of thought impulses.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

Play is really the work of childhood.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.