I'm here to make music; I'm not here be a fashion model.

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.

I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.

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

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 don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I really want my things to last, and I want my songs and my bodies of work to resonate with people. I want to hit people - at least make a dent in them. I want to make a mark somehow.