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It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.
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It's difficult to break free when your passion is your occupation.
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Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.
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You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.
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Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.
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You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. Because if you stay in your comfort zone, you would never do the things that you need to do.
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Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else.
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To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.
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You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.
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It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it
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No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.
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It's funny how you can look back in life and there are all these 'if's' - if this hadn't happened would I have been here? If I hadn't done this would I have ended up talking to you? It's funny how life is seriously just a bunch of those moments.
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A career is a progression of ups and downs, how you deal with them and how you bounce back.
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Honestly, if you don’t fit in, then you’re probably doing the right thing.
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We are built with a passion in our heart for the things that we're meant to do.
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One of the things I've really realized over the past number of years is that you can't plan - you really don't know what's going to happen. All the plans I made for myself all turned out really differently in the end, so I just go with it.
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Don't let the romance die, remember one thing that's going right in the sea of things that aren't.
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We're all in different scenarios, we all make mistakes, we all break stuff, but we're not perfect, we couldn't [be] - it doesn't matter what you build.
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All the collaborations that I've done that I'm really proud of with a lot of incredible Canadian artists and beyond, that's when art comes together and becomes something really special.
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It doesn't matter if you have something greater to say per say, just enjoy what you're doing.
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I think that once you go through childbirth, you can do anything. It's like Wow! I can conquer the world now!
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You just keep going. Nothing that isn't beautiful is worth slowing down for.
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I don’t know what’s gonna happen in 30 years, and that’s…awesome.
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This world is a little dark, and I am LIGHTS.
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The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.
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So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.
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The best part about getting knocked down is standing back up knowing what you didn't before.
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If you do enough things, you're going to eventually narrow it down to the things that really make you happy.
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That's the beauty of music, art, and video games: forget about your worries for a few minutes; it shouldn't add to them or make you feel worried or sad: it should make you feel good.
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I'm such a fan of anime and manga to this day, but I never really like got to know all the characters and everything, so I don't think I'd be able to pick one.
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You grow into everything you hate about yourself, over time.
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It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That's why I've put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form.
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My hair's actually really thin, but I just throw some hairspray into it and make sure it's been a couple days dirty, and then it goes the direction that you want it, literally!
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If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.
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Love each other, even strangers. Nothing in the world matters more.
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Speak out your mind and your heart, you won’t be bored.
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If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.
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Sometimes I remind myself of all the things that make me feel so blessed. And then I remind myself to remind myself more often.
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Sometimes hate hurts more than love feels good. Just have to realize it's because we're more used to love. Let the haters stumble by.
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It’s funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it’s that life changes, but you as a person don’t or maybe we adjust, but don’t actually change.
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I've always gravitated naturally towards a little bit of a heavier thing, having been in punk bands and metal bands before I ever got into pop.
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The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.
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Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like...it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.
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I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.
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I've never been somebody who blew up overnight, I've never been somebody who everyone talked about all at once, but I've had this really cool slow build.
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Every day is just a time to learn about yourself and learn about the world and that's how I feel all the time.
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I need to be happy. I need to set that example for my daughter so that she goes into something she loves, not because other people want her to do something. It's a good feeling, it's freeing.
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I never had good hair growing up - just had the worst nothing hair - and until I started being rough with it, even 'til this day I'm actually pretty rough with it, and ever since I've been like that it's been pretty darn good to me.
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Sitting in a studio with Oli [Sykes], or going back and forth with Adam [Young] on his tracks, it's so much more fun than something really structured and put together.
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I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are like my musical family, my second family - they took me in and taught me what a good song is.
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When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.
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