Alessia Cara Quotes

Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.

That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.

When you tell a story that you know is having an effect on the audience, that, for me, is the transforming thing.

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day.

Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.

All I can hope for is songs that feel special and songs that make people feel.

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

All that really moves me is music.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.

If you look at the big rock hits I've had - 'High on Emotion,' for example - the songs I write have to have a real meaning. There has to be depth.

Emotional information is very, very rich in influence. You're giving somebody something to connect with, to see themselves in.

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

I know music is just powerful in itself and to have someone say the words that I sat down and wrote changed their life or made them feel a certain way, that hits something in you.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

To know that the people who are singing along at your show actually have something in common with you and can identify with what you've gone through, makes the songs that much more meaningful to sing.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.