It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

You've decided that you're not worthy of my love. Who are you to decide who I should love?

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

...the single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way.

I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.