11 Quotes & Sayings By Sabrina Carpenter

Sabrina Carpenter is an American singer and songwriter. She is signed to Hollywood Records and released her debut EP, "Carnival" in 2016. Carpenter's debut single, "You'll Never Know", was released on August 10, 2016 and peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. The music video for the song has over 300 million views on YouTube. Carpenter was born in Memphis, Tennessee to an African-American father and a white mother Read more

Her father, William "Willie" Carpenter, became a prominent businessman in Memphis after he graduated from high school and received a football scholarship to attend the University of Tennessee. While attending the university, he met his future wife Jayne and they married after graduation. She attended Mary McLeod Bethune High School in Memphis where she played basketball and graduated in 2013. Carpenter began writing songs at age nine and began posting her compositions on YouTube under the name SabrinaAdriana by the time she was twelve years old.

She started recording at age thirteen with producer Andrew Mabbitt, who also produced her first single "Heaven" for Disney's The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement soundtrack. She later signed with Hollywood Records after being discovered by songwriter Joshua Coleman through YouTube, where she had garnered over 750,000 subscribers. She is currently working on her debut album under Republic Records.

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I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something. Sabrina Carpenter
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Everybody loves a good Christmas song if you do it right. Sabrina Carpenter
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas. Sabrina Carpenter
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. Sabrina Carpenter
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I'm very lucky; I have a lot of knowledge. My favorite band is The Beatles, so a lot of inspiration for my music comes from them, too. Sabrina Carpenter
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There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world. Sabrina Carpenter
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are. Sabrina Carpenter
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear. Sabrina Carpenter
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later. Sabrina Carpenter
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As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy. Sabrina Carpenter