Jessica Mauboy

“I like to branch across a lot of different styles and brands in the way I dress; it's just the way my style works. So I love that I can walk into a Target store and think, 'Oh my God, I love these jeans,' and then I'll pair them with something designer.”

“I love to kick back at home with some good food, friends, & family and watch DVDs!”

“I have written with some amazing singers and songwriters - the moment with Snoop Dogg was amazing - but being able to tell an Aboriginal story is bigger than anything that I have ever known.”

“Country music is who I really, really am deeply.”

“We've had real strong aboriginal male artists who've crossed over to the mainstream who have toured the U.K., who have been a massive influence on myself and many, many communities around Australia.”

“I am a deeply competitive person when it comes to music.”

“There hasn't been that many indigenous Australians who have made it in the pop industry.”

“I thank my mum, dad, and home for keeping me in touch with my own country and my own land. I can be in the studio with Snoop Dogg or singing for Oprah, but I'm still me.”

“I just want to play music with a band, live.”

“I've always looked up to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for their outstanding vocal performances. I've always been inspired by them.”

“There were country songs I connected to when there was pain, when I saw things my family were going through. It was my way of acknowledging I wasn't OK: music tapped on the door; I could work out these emotions by singing.”

“My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.”

“There's been moments where I've felt, as an indigenous woman growing up in Australia, there's been that kind of rivalry of being indigenous... I've had that experience of someone saying, 'I don't know if she's going to go that far.'”

“Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all, that's all part of how I express my identity.”

“Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.”

“I'm a big fan of 'The IT Crowd.' That's where I discovered Chris O'Dowd.”

“When I was growing up, every Sunday was a rest day, so after church, we'd get all my cousins and sisters together, and my parents would take us all shop hopping. We'd go to all the different shops, and Target was always the last on the list; we'd walk in, and Mum would say, 'Go on, go crazy!'”

“The storytelling in country music is so powerful.”

“I never went to music school.”

“I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I've only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels have these arrow plates in a pattern. There's gold, black and white and they're amazing!”