Sabrina Claudio

“On 'About Time' there were about three times I had a co-writer with me. The rest of them was me, I wrote them myself.”

“I went through a gothic phase at one point. All black: black lipstick, purple lipstick. It was very weird, and then I went through a phase where I wore shoes with no less than a three-inch platform.”

“I'm growing as a woman and I'm able to write about things that I wanted to write about when I was younger.”

“What am I afraid of as an artist? I guess I was scared before of just not being heard. But I'm too loud now.”

“I'm an extremely introverted and isolated writer, but I was starting to feel exhausted and as if my writing was becoming redundant. As much as it was a silly fear of mine, I began opening myself up to other writers and it was the best decision I could've made for my art.”

“I'm not a fashion person, but I would describe my style as very neutral. I love a good silk slip.”

“The visual for 'Holding The Gun' is a love story. It's about a ride or die and unapologetic type of love and a kind of loyalty that only comes once in a lifetime.”

“I did 'Oh Holy Night,' which is one that I grew up listening to because I was in choir in high school and we would do Christmas concerts and competitions every year.”

“There's such a theme when it comes to Christmas, and we're so used to hearing that theme over and over in different ways with the classic Christmas songs.”

“I do write my own stuff.”

“I've always had a maturity within my writing.”

“I'm still learning about myself, my body and my mind, but I'm not afraid to tell my story.”

“Flowers are just a natural thing in my life. I gravitate towards them so much, just in every video that I do, every visual, for some reason, flowers are incorporated.”

“The only time I write with someone else is with one of my friends but I write everything myself.”

“Becoming an artist and finding my way, I did kind of veer off into different genres and none of them ever fit.”

“The main part of living in Miami is that you have to learn how to dance salsa.”

“I'm really happy doing normal things.”

“I feel like L.A. is my actual home.”

“I'm Cuban and Puerto Rican and Miami is very Cuban oriented. Growing up around the music - all of the salsa and meringue influenced me as an artist. I find myself gravitating to latin influences, sounds.”

“I started making original music during my YouTube process. And as a young female, dealing with a lot of male producers who were older and had more so-called experience, they would discourage me, telling me that what I was doing - and even my vision - was never going to work. And that lasted quite a long time.”