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Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of 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.
With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.
When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.
Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they moved to Italy.
Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.
Maybe I'm not a typical pop star, but I don't think there's a mould for a pop star or singer. You can do whatever you want.
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.
The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.
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've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.
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.
Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.
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.
I think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?'
I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I've always wanted to see those.
I think fame is such a scary thing, and it's something I can never understand. It's terrifying, but it's the only way I get to do what I love every day, you know?
I feel like my whole life, I've had to prove myself to so many people because I'm young and because I'm a female; it's just constant. I'm always surprising people.
'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.
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."
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.
'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.
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.
I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.
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 love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.
In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone.
I've never hosted a party in my life, not even my own birthday party. I'd feel really uncomfortable saying, 'Hey everybody, let's celebrate me!' But I'm not antisocial. I don't hate people.
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.
When I was shopping around trying to get signed, I made it a point to say, 'This is who I am.' I dress the way I normally dress, and I just wanted to find a label that would accept me for that.
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.
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.
We all act like we know everything in life, but nobody really does. That's what I want people to realize. For me, I know that I'm the same person. Nothing has changed. My family and friends know that.