Kirstin Maldonado

“I always feel good after I change my hair. You get a haircut and feel positive and ready to take on the day.”

“It is based off the pentatonic scale, which is a five-note scale in music. And there are five of us. We were going to be The Pentatonix, but we dropped the 'The' and added an 'x' to try and be cooler.”

“Every single 'no' that you get, you know that that was an experience that you learned from. Keep going.”

“When Pentatonix started, my whole vision of what I thought my life was gonna be completely changed - in a great way, obviously. I never thought that I would have the confidence to do this.”

“Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.”

“We do a cover of Charlie Puth's 'Attention' that I really, really love and I think really grooves.”

“We're very comfortable in our own sound and what we do, and so that's where our inspiration is from - just things that we are truly inspired by or that we think will work well for us, and not just because something is Top 40.”

“I've slowly become more comfortable as an artist and as a person.”

“We have a really incredible fan base... they're... the ones that are rooting for us and buying the music and streaming it. They're just really, really amazing... and we're just so thankful for them.”

“I think a capella and Christmas music just go really well together.”

“Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.”

“I think YouTube has been super instrumental in our success as well, because I think there's something really important about seeing and hearing what we're doing.”

“We're just a joyous band, and our music is just fun, happy, and nostalgic.”

“I love Halloween - I'm a die hard.”

“I want people to see that I'm just a girl who went for her dreams.”

“Jennifer Lopez and Sara Bareilles are my tops! Both incredibly hard-working and talented women.”

“In my honest opinion, in 'Volumes I' and 'II,' we were still trying to figure out our sound.”

“I think people are always going to say things about you or disapprove of your relationships or your ideals or your beliefs or something, but I think you have to stand up and stay strong in who you are and not let it affect you.”

“We're grateful for our diverse fans.”

“As individuals, we are so different in our personalities, lifestyles, how we grew up, and our culture.”