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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 feel like, to have a career as an artist, you don't need to meet the same criteria as you do to win a singing competition. They're two very different animals.

I want to be an artist. I don't want to be a celebrity.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.