Quotes from Alice Merton

Every time someone asks me where I'm from, I'm not sure how to answer that question... so I say I have no roots.

It's a really hard decision, picking my second single.

I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.

I loved a lot of the romantic composers.

Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.

I don't really see myself as a pop star. I guess I just really enjoy being able to play my music for people who actually want to listen to it.

Baking is more like chemistry, following certain instructions and knowing what comes out in the end. It's almost reassuring! Songwriting is a creative process where you go into a session with nothing and can come out of it with something incredible in the end. I never feel like I'm taking a risk with baking, but always with songwriting.

I don't like being dependent on other people.

I wanted to take the seriousness out of everything a little bit, because it kind of fits my style.

The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.

I would bake for my grandma because she has never had anything I've baked.

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I'm at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots - never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.

I was realizing that I didn't have a home. I didn't really feel at home in one place.

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know, I'm going to write the truth.'

I always wanted to do something with music, but to be honest, I never thought I'd be good enough.

Like most people, I wanted and still want to live by my own rules.

Home, for me, is with the people who I really love - whether that's in England with my family, Ireland with my relatives, or Germany and Canada with my friends.

I'm not going to release something just because they think it's the next hit. It's not what everyone wants to hear, but that's the way it is.

My mom used to bake so much when I was a child, and I have a big sweet tooth.

I didn't want to write a sad song to remind me of the fact that I'm always moving around. I wanted something to cheer me up.

I'm definitely sleep deprived - it is so hard to sleep on a tour bus! It moves around so much, and we have really weird time schedules.

I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.

When I was thirteen years old, and we had just moved to Germany, I definitely felt I was missing out on normal teenage life. I was watching my old school friends from Canada grow up without me while I was in Germany trying to learn the language and trying to pass each year without failing.