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Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.
My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the Italian culture. I grew up around it. My parents speak Italian, and I speak Italian.
My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.
Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.
Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we're just trying to figure life out, and we don't know much at all.
Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.
Other than the 'Sesame Street' soundtrack, which I was obsessed with, the first artist I really felt I'd discovered on my own was Amy Winehouse. She was the first female artist I wanted to write like and sing like and be like.
People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.
Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.
Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.
Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.
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.
Talent is talent, but fashion is separate, and it shouldn't be used to judge me as a singer.
That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.
The biggest critics are in the comments online. People are so judgmental of me. It's like, 'Why is she wearing this?' or 'Why isn't she wearing that?' or 'Why does she talk like that?' That's the worst because they're judging for no reason.
The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?
The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'
The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.
The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.
There's something so beautiful in a woman who loves her body and is confident.
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