“Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.”

“In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.”

“I think that success is having fun.”

“My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.”

“Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.”

“Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.”

“Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.”

“Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.”

“Lauryn Hill's always been a hero of mine. And Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and Adele, those are the current artists I would reference in terms of who's been able to do really amazing pop records with really cool, organic throwback elements of soul in there as well.”

“You’re going to have people who are going to say ‘Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends’ and I think frankly that’s a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They’re all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love-life, and no one raises a red flag there.”