Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

Cats are evil, and they hate me.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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?'

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

I just want to keep my normal life for as long as possible.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

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Alessia Cara

Talent is talent, but fashion is separate, and it shouldn't be used to judge me as a singer.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

I'm unpolished, I guess.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

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.

Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.