Mia: "I know what my voice is, and I know what I want to talk about. And I want to be heard."

Mia: "I don’t have a label secretly funding me. I don’t have an investor. Everything is just me, so now when I drop a song or drop a project, I’m really hoping that the fans, media outlets and streaming services support and recognize that I am truly an independent artist and I am doing this myself."

Mia: "Good music is good music and I think it can stand on its own."

Mia: "I really have just been winging it since day one … it was just kind of all on instinct and that’s why I think following the signs is so important."

Mia: "I don’t like to wait. I don’t like being slow."

Mia: "What got me into singing music was actually musical theatre. I started when I was eight-years-old doing school plays – Cinderella was the first musical I was in. I guess that’s what really sparked it for me. I felt safe to be creative and to explore."

Mia: "Love is just everything, so you don’t have to play it a certain type of way if that makes sense."

Mia: "I want to get in, I want to make it and I want to put it out. Sometimes we go in and we write the song in 10 minutes, and sometimes it takes an hour. But say the song is already written. I then go into the studio and cut it in about an hour and a half — all the leads, stacks, harmonies, ad-libs, everything is done very quickly."

Mia: "I’m going to talk about what’s real to me. I guess I was always like that."

Mia: "As long as it’s a positive experience and you’re happy then go for it because love is the best thing in the world, but you just have to listen to yourself."

Mia: "Let me just create, and it’s going to be what it is and that’s fine."

Mia: "I’m just so grateful to have had just all the experiences I’ve had. I come from such a small island and I was just a little girl that loved music, I’ve accomplished more than I could have ever dreamed of."

Mia: "Love doesn’t have a stereotype."

Mia: "I can’t wait for them to hear ‘Bitter Love’ and see how much I’ve grown. As an artist, doing a song like this — something that really feels like my heart and soul — that’s always been my dream."

Mia: "I could put together 10 different projects with all the music that I have."

[On going independant]

Mia: "I was never hesitant because I knew that there is no point in me doing this, if the music that’s coming out isn’t my soul and isn’t connected to me and my life, because I’m the one who has to get up there and sing it."