Alessia Cara Quotes

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

I really make music from the heart.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.

Music is everywhere, and it's an amazing and creative way for people to express themselves, so I love it.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I think it's exciting that fans can immediately pick up on what my music is about and what I'm leaning towards: that they get to actually feel it.

Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I feel everything very strongly, and I find that when I sing through music, it helps me connect to people.

I like the music that I sing, cos I, like, feel it more.

I try to make music for people to relate to, and I like to keep it realistic.

My guitar has, like, become part of me, you know.

If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to the audience, and they can become part of the tribe that is into what I do.

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

It's important to keep music in your life in some way.