Top 75 Alessia Cara Quotes

It’s good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don’t really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.

We should just know that we can all create this special, safe place within ourselves that we can feel comfortable in and that doesn’t necessarily have to be with other people.

I feel like I’m in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I’m a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.

I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I always find power in struggles. You end up a lot happier that way.

Cats are evil, and they hate me.

I don’t really dance. I don’t drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.

As a female and someone who’s young, I’m still coming into my own, and I still have struggles. I know how I look; I know what my flaws are – I don’t need anybody to tell me that.

I actually didn’t grow up watching ‘Degrassi,’ but I saw the commercials and knew the characters. I didn’t realize that Drake was the guy from ‘Degrassi.’ I had to piece it together and go, ‘Oh! He’s Aubrey Graham.’

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

It’s so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It’s like, ‘You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?’ It just proves how much people are alike.

There’s something so beautiful in a woman who loves her body and is confident.

All I’m really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I’m not good at fashion, so I don’t see a point in trying to be good at that.

Every time I sing, it it’s a reminder to myself that I have to be confident.

I really want to speak for young women, especially because I feel like we’re constantly brainwashed in everyday life.

I’d never make something pointless that I don’t believe in. I don’t think I could do it.

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.

I always get criticized for my clothing because I like wearing jeans and T-shirts. There’s nothing wrong with dressing sexy. It’s just I don’t want to be anything that I’m not. I’m not here to be a fashion icon. I am here to make songs.

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

If Ed Sheeran covered my songs, I would die. That would be unbelievable.

I’ve never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.

I’m not extremely outgoing, but I’m average, I think. When people meet me they’ll say, ‘Oh you’re not that shy…’ I never said I was! I see where they’re coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party – I get it. But it’s not 100% accurate.

As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that’s the point of it all. I don’t want it to just be background music, you know?

When I was eight, I told my best friend I got a Hilary Duff autograph, but I just signed it myself.

I’d like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

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

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.

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.

YouTube is my first love.

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.

‘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 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.

Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we’re just trying to figure life out, and we don’t know much at all.

I think we all have the right to feel 100 percent beautiful and 100 percent confident without pleasing anybody ’cause we’re not here for anybody else.

Having a mom as a hairdresser was really awesome: I was always her test dummy. I’ve had every style, every color you could imagine.

I’m here to make music; I’m not here be a fashion model.

I just want to keep my normal life for as long as possible.

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.

My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It’s a big part of my family, the Italian culture. I grew up around it. My parents speak Italian, and I speak Italian.

Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That’s literally me.

The only thing I’m really, truly good at is music – I just love it.

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn’t want to be seen doing it. It’s something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.

I had a fairly regular childhood. I was a pretty boring kid. I didn’t do much. I was always thinking, but I didn’t really say a lot.

I was a very strange child.

I guess people don’t think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I’m so glad that there’s artists like Lorde and Raury and Kehlani because they’re showing other people that young people can have an opinion and a voice and do really well with it. I’m glad I can be one of those people.

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.

That’s all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.

I just try to tell my stories in a way that is still light-hearted and fun to listen to. I’m not trying to bash you over the head with what I have to say.

I was one of those weird kids who didn’t really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.

I would love to host ‘Saturday Night Live.’ That’s one of my goals in life – just putting that out there. I don’t know if I’m funny enough, but we’ll see.

The biggest critics are in the comments online. People are so judgmental of me. It’s like, ‘Why is she wearing this?’ or ‘Why isn’t she wearing that?’ or ‘Why does she talk like that?’ That’s the worst because they’re judging for no reason.

As a young girl, I’m always going to have to work a bit harder to prove myself; that’s just reality. But having to work harder makes me feel like girls are stronger, too.

I grew up in this little city called Brampton. It’s pretty suburban – there’s not a lot going on. In my neighbourhood, specifically, there weren’t a lot of other kids so I would just spend a lot of time inside.

I want ‘Scars to Your Beautiful’ to reach different types of women. The girl I am talking about, it’s me, it’s you – it’s every girl who has struggled with feeling not good enough. I want to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.

It’s important to show that there’s different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that’s perfectly fine, and that’s amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I’d wear heels every day, and I’d strut around in a dress, but that’s not me.

Talent is talent, but fashion is separate, and it shouldn’t be used to judge me as a singer.

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 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.

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.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She’s freaking amazing! She’s doing that, and she’s unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that’s just what I’m proving to people.

I think all teenagers feel a lot of things at once; everything’s going crazy in our brain.