Alessia Cara Quotes

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

My entire life, people have told me that I couldn't do certain things. They told me I couldn't go to college. They told me I couldn't go to Yale, Georgetown, couldn't end up doing much on Capitol Hill. Couldn't be party chair. And my response has always been, 'Watch me.'

No matter where you come from, no matter what you decide to do in life, you can do anything you want to do.

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

As a young kid, I've always believed I will play for Chelsea. I always believe that. I think I have the ability to. I just have to, when I get the opportunity, grab it with two hands.

If a person wants to make it big, they can, and they will! The place that they come from doesn't matter, whether small town or big.

I'm about working, getting better, and proving people wrong.

If you have any talent, you can't be held back, and you can't be held down.

I learned about this talent show on TV that was basically the Estonian version of 'American Idol.' So I lied about my age, went on the show, and won. I think my story is about working really hard and dreaming really big.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen.

I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future.

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you're from, because there's always been this big cloud over America saying you have to live in L.A. or you have to live in New York to make it. I always knew it didn't matter as long as you had the songs.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.

To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.