Top 149 Quotes & Sayings by Alessia Cara - Page 3

I've never been one to crave attention, which I know means that this is probably the worst career to pick. I get anxious even when people come up to me for pictures sometimes. That's the one thing that makes me hesitant about my future. But I love music too much to not do it.

I want to show people that I am comfortable enough to go on national television and just be myself.

'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.

I'm unpolished, I guess.

People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.

I don't think a lot of artists have the freedom that I have when it comes to dressing in general.

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?'

It's not that I don't care how I look, but I'd rather turn the attention to the music as much as possible.

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.

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.

I am stubborn enough to know not to change myself.

Everywhere I go, every city, they're always like, 'What's in the water in Canada? What's in the water in Toronto?'

Cats are evil, and they hate me.

I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.

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."

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.

As a kid I would always be in my bedroom constantly staring at the same four pink walls in it, aspiring to do all of these things. I had big dreams, and my dreams were bigger than what my life was at the time. I didn't understand why my life wasn't more interesting, but I was so oblivious to life outside of my bedroom because I was always there. I had to go about living my dreams.

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

It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.

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.

No matter what I put out, no matter what genre - because I feel like I'm going to experiment with everything - I hope people will see that it's true to me, that it's honest, and nobody ever thinks that I'm inauthentic.

The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.

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

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

People don't care what men wear or how they look. Unfortunately for women, the music industry is very visual and objectifying. The objectification of our bodies and using our bodies to sell things needs to change. A lot of this marketing stuff comes from men, so we definitely need more women behind the scenes.

I've now learned how to do it, I can write anywhere. I'm the type of person that will get a random idea and then I'll have to write it down and then continue on it. It can be anywhere. It doesn't have to be a set place.

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.

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