Musician

Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.

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 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 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.

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.

I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds.

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

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.

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 don't really think I got the full high school experience, only because when I got to high school for the first year, it was grades 9-10. We didn't have older grades. But besides that, it was normal. It was a regular public school. We didn't have much going on. It wasn't too crazy.

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.

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

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.

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 was a very strange child.

I was a troublemaking kid.

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

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.

Cats are evil, and they hate me.

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