While Sabrina Carpenter wasn’t always sure when her career would take off, she always knew what she wanted to do in life. “I don’t know how to describe it,” she told Paper Magazine in her cover story interview before getting into the details of the manifestation work she did for her career.

“When you are a child and you just have a feeling of, ‘I know I’m going to do this someday. I know I’m going to do this for the rest of my life. I know this is the path I need to follow, whatever that means for me, and whatever success that means for me is what I’m destined for,’” Carpenter recalled thinking at a young age. “I will say I’m a little bit of a freak manifester sometimes,” she added.

“I always knew deep down that this was something I would do with my life, and I didn’t ever really doubt that, even when s*** was hitting the ceiling fan,” the Espresso singer noted of her musical career.

The Nonsense performer is all set to drop her sixth studio album, Short n’ Sweet, on Friday, August 23.