“Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it’s a legacy that should be kept alive. In the future, it’s something I really want.”

I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.

I never want to put my name on something that I don’t love or wouldn’t wear myself.

I’m lucky that I have my family, I’m lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I’d want to feel the energy of being on stage. I’ve always found that very interesting.

I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it’s very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.

I think the most expensive thing I’ve bought thus far is my Rolex.

I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells you that they don’t, then they are lying.

My style kind of differs – sometimes I want to be a little dressed down, a little tomboy, sometimes I want to be dressed up and very chic and look proper. But I don’t ever believe in overdoing it for day-to-day style.

You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

I wasn’t bullied by the mean girls in high school. I’m just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.

All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents’ wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.

I love New York. It’s hard to explain, but it’s the energy of the city. It’s not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

For me, I like to be a little bit tomboy but still look like a lady. Pretty tough. Or really, really, really pretty.

I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he’s so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.

I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.

Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

You don’t have to have a reason to feel good, you’re alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.