"I never really thought that I'd get an award for being a rule breaker," Alessia Cara said as she accepted her Rule Breaker Award at Billboard's Women in Music event Friday (Dec. 9) in New York City.
Pulling out a piece of paper with her speech written on it ("I'm a proofreader, so it's OK," she joked), Cara continued, "In fact, it's crazy to think that there are rules to be broken in self-expression in the first place."
But the 20-year-old "Here" singer stressed that breaking the rules isn't about simply being rebellious.