Melanie Fiona Quotes

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

- Melanie Fiona

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

- Melanie Fiona

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.

- Melanie Fiona

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

- Melanie Fiona

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

- Melanie Fiona

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

- Melanie Fiona

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

- Melanie Fiona

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.

- Melanie Fiona

I'm a shoe girl.

- Melanie Fiona

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

- Melanie Fiona

Surround yourself with positive people.

- Melanie Fiona

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.

- Melanie Fiona

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

- Melanie Fiona

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

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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.

- Melanie Fiona

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.

- Melanie Fiona

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

- Melanie Fiona

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.

- Melanie Fiona

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

- Melanie Fiona

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

- Melanie Fiona

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

- Melanie Fiona

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

- Melanie Fiona

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

- Melanie Fiona

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

- Melanie Fiona

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

- Melanie Fiona

Canada can be tough for urban music.

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I love Canada, always.

- Melanie Fiona

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

- Melanie Fiona

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.

- Melanie Fiona

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.

- Melanie Fiona