Brynn Cartelli

“I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.”

“I know when something is going to work for me, and I feel when it's not, so I am going to carry that into the music.”

“I've grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports. People would ask me, 'What would you choose?' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'”

“I want to go to college if I can. That's really important to me, and I really hope that I get that opportunity to do so.”

“I am a very driven and hardworking person, and I am independent, and I feel that I have really good instincts.”

“It's really important to me that the music that I release is true to me and important to me.”

“I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.”

“It's so important to just be nice to everyone and be respectful.”

“I hate when I get pinned down to a genre. I have a sound, a lane I want to go down, but I never want to be stuck in my song choices.”

“Being on 'The Voice,' I have a voice. I'm speaking for my generation, and that's huge.”

“I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.”

“If everyone loves you for the person you are, let alone your music is incredible, I think that's a really great place to be.”

“Everyone connects differently with different things.”

“I wasn't sure what would happen to me after 'The Voice.' I was just excited to make music.”

“I want to do a darker, pop soul kind of feel.”

“I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.”

“It's definitely complicated, but it's all about the music. When people focus on other things, I think that's when it gets lost, and I would just rather focus on the music of it all.”

“The support from back home has been more than I ever expected. They always knew me as the lacrosse player or the girl playing field hockey. Now they're seeing me on national TV, and they've been so supportive.”

“I'm just really excited to get music out there that's not from the show, because it's cool to be able to break out and have my own stuff under my own name.”

“I've always been a fan of Coldplay.”