I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.

Alessia Cara
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  1. I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

  2. Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that, ' and then you do it. It's being happy with what you do and doing what you love every day.

  3. It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

  4. It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It's like, 'You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?' It just proves how much people are alike.

  5. 'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.

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