Melanie Fiona Quotes

I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get, a good pair of shoes is going to last you a lifetime.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

I love Canada, always.

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she's a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She's like your cool chill girlfriend, sister-friend. I'm just like everybody else.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

The social networking sites are such good way to keep in touch with your fans, it's quick and simple and it keeps your fans interested in what you're doing.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything.

I'm a shoe girl.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.

I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.