Catriona Gray

“I was a very quiet, shy child. I just became quite talkative in high school, in Grade 10 onwards.”

“It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.”

“No matter what your family does or where your family is, you always need to look after each other.”

“I loved school as a kid. I was a bit of a nerd.”

“I don't have the habit of asking money from my parents.”

“To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the lives of many.”

“I just feel like a Filipina, a Filipino woman, and it just so happens that when I was growing up, I was very much an Australian, and I think you can be both.”

“It's just so funny that when I was growing up, I was very much of an Australian. I just thought it was funny that there was this war, like, 'No, she's ours, she's practically a Miss Australia.' But I am a Miss Philippines.”

“Social media has definitely revolutionized or transformed the world of pageantry, and not just pageantry, but any social cause that we like to lend our voice to, how we inform each other, how we connect.”

“I love working with children because, as an only child, I grew up always wishing for siblings.”

“My course is about really working on a sheet of music. You work out the chords, which note complements the other, and how they will make the feeling of tension, the feeling of resolution. It's all about harmonization. That's more of the theory of notation and everything rather than practical. I don't play any instrument.”

“I was born in Cairns, Queensland. Then my parents and I moved to Sydney. We moved to New Wales. We moved around Australia. I was just really close to my parents, and actually, we moved around a lot when I was very young. I think it played a big part in making me the shy teenager that I was.”

“Even if someone does say something negative, it does not give us a reason to retaliate; just take the high road and don't say anything.”

“Ever since Binibini, I've really been hands-on since I've been an independent candidate. I'm hands-on in every single aspect of my preparations because I'm having so much fun.”

“I feel everything very strongly, and I find that when I sing through music, it helps me connect to people.”

“Some people think that confidence is something that some people just have. Even though I may look confident strutting in a two-piece on a stage, there are days when I'm so nervous, or I feel like, 'Oh my gosh, I don't know if I can do this.'”

“My strength is that I'm an empath.”

“I love my parents so much. My day or night is not complete without talking to them - on Skype.”

“I can sing in my head and rearrange the tune of a song, note per note. I am a nerd.”

“I have always used my platform to speak about positivity in social media when it comes to pageantry because it is one of the main problems I have experienced.”