Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same. Meghan Trainor More Quotes by Meghan Trainor More Quotes From Meghan Trainor I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist. Meghan Trainor me makeup fashion football In high school, I didn't date awesome dudes. Meghan Trainor awesome high high-school school I'm definitely bigger than a Rihanna. Pop stars nowadays are all perfect Barbie-doll bodies, and they talk about how they keep their bodies up with hard work, so in my eyes, it's good to have a regular, average body type in the charts. Meghan Trainor eyes good hard-work work I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old. Meghan Trainor old equal women want A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was. Meghan Trainor nobody think you people I've never been a die-hard fan, like a crazy fan for an artist. Meghan Trainor never like crazy artist I cry for a lot of good things that happen. I cry a lot, okay? Meghan Trainor good okay cry good-things I like Ariana Grande's nice thigh-gap; she's got good legs. Meghan Trainor she good like nice All my friends were cheerleaders, and I was the girl who hung out at home. I just worked on my music all the time. Meghan Trainor music girl home time When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally. Meghan Trainor better myself dad people After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist. Meghan Trainor me artist two world With social media, with Instagram and selfies and all these apps that are trying to make you look perfect... it's hard for girls to grow up nowadays with all that stuff. Meghan Trainor grow look you social-media Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre. Meghan Trainor me you growing-up father I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions. Meghan Trainor questions me you people