Musician

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

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.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

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

I never really necessarily liked being quiet.

I think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.

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.

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 think a lot of artists have the freedom that I have when it comes to dressing in general.

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

Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle with every day.

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

I keep my hair curly and natural because I really just wanna show who I am.

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 took me a while to really believe in myself or feel determined about it, but then once I realized that it's possible for anyone, and these people who are singers started off very normal... I realized that it was not that hard to do.

When you're from an unknown place, I think it's hard for you to believe it's possible. You think you have to go to L.A. or New York to make it, but I don't think that's true. I'm glad to be an example that you can make it from where you are. All you need is talent and hard work.

'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.

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.

Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.