Musician

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.

The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'

I've always been self-conscious about my personality.

YouTube is my first love.

Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.

Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.

Other than the 'Sesame Street' soundtrack, which I was obsessed with, the first artist I really felt I'd discovered on my own was Amy Winehouse. She was the first female artist I wanted to write like and sing like and be like.

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.

Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.

As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and raised in Italy, and my dad was born in Canada and moved back and forth between Canada and Italy, so they would also listen to all the big Italian stars like Eros Ramazzotti, Gigi D'Alessio, Tiziano Ferro, Laura Pausini.

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

I remember making a 'thank you' video when one of my videos got to 50 views!

When I write, I like squeezing as many words as possible into each bar - I've listened to the Fugees and Lauryn Hill for as long as I can remember, so probably a big chunk of it subconsciously comes from that.

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.

We all just need to love ourselves and believe in ourselves.

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

I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.

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

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.