“That chapter taught me resilience and made me stronger”
“I find kindness and authenticity to be some of the sexiest characteristics of a great partner and relationship.”
“Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, ‘I have been through worse.’”
“I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.”
“I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.”
“What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.”
“I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.”
“I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.”
“When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.”
“I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, ‘What a strange turn of events.'”
“I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It’s a nice feeling.”
“Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my – my brother and I both loved sports.”
“I love having my hair back. It is so important to how you feel, how you dress, how you look.”
“I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.”
“I think Taj and Nina were better friends, because they get along, they have a lot of fun and they laugh. But it seems that Nina and Jack really hit it off. Nina really fell in love with Jack. there’s a lot of chemistry between them!”
“I believe that in music and in a lot of things it’s kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.”
“Everything was going for me, I didn’t even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.”
“I have been singing for as long as I could talk.”
“I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.”
“I’m not worried any more about changing people’s view of me.”
“I have been singing for as long as I could talk.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.”
“At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.”
“I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn’t give myself the time to reflect.”
“I’m just excited I get to sing all the time. There’s nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.”
“I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.”
“I’m thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human – I think people still have to remember that.”
“Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you.”
“I’ve done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I’m enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.”
“Hodgkin’s is serious and I don’t want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.”
“I think it’s important to have professional lessons or advice.”
“I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.”
“Most people’s journeys haven’t been as disjointed as mine.”
“I’m enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.”
“If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.”
“I’d just recorded it in Mariah Carey’s studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she’s so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.”
“The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.”
“I’m still human – I can’t not feel.”
“I believe the impossible is possible to overcome I believe in miracles Born from love in everyone”
“I can’t be all things to everyone.”
“Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I’d just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.”
“Anyones allowed to dream, I say”
“I’d just love magic. I’d love to be able to just click and transport. I’d be like a fairy little godmother, I think, going round hearing what people wish for and seeing what I could do for them.”
“I want you to know you’re in my heart… growing into a beautiful garden.”
“Since the release of my single ‘Born To Try’ I have been so busy completing the album as well as my busy Neighbours schedule I have not had much spare time. When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.”
“Life is a journey I don’t have a map for”
“What a strange turn of events.”
“I don’t have any expectations.”
“I’m 20 years old and I’ve really just started, … I’m a new artist here and I’m excited to be sharing my music with a new part of the world.”
“Yeah, I wear them all the time, … All my cupboards are full of them.”
“I was just burning, wanting to be on stage.”
“I knew straight away it had to be the first single.”
“I do what I want to do, I own who I am, I know who I am, I know what I like and what I don’t…”
“It’s so wild to think of how intense my first records were and how I just broke out on the scene… And then I didn’t come back for 10 years. I’m more in love with music than I ever have been. I’m refocused and I’m focused on sharing music again…”