Canadian Quotes

Surround yourself with positive people.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she's a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She's like your cool chill girlfriend, sister-friend. I'm just like everybody else.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

I'm a shoe girl.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I love Canada, always.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get, a good pair of shoes is going to last you a lifetime.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.

I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for tha

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

I remember when TiVO first came out I was all about TiVo. I came home and that thing was frozen, and I thought 'This is awful. This is the end of the world'. Then I unplugged it, and I plugged it back in, and still frozen. It was paralyzing. I called them. They said, 'Just unplug it longer.' Fixed.

I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.