“All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.”

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

I have a garden in my backyard that’s completely organic, which I’m very proud of.

Love is a really scary thing.

Be happy being you.

My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro ’50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

There’s always tomorrow and it always gets better.

I don’t regret any of the life decisions I’ve made in my life because with every choice I’ve made I’ve learned something new.

It’s a new day. Count your blessings, think twice before you complain, give more than you ask for, do what makes you happy and enjoy life.

It’s ok to be different.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‘Oh. That’s interesting,’ than try to fit in.

Know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I’m very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.

I don’t really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression, wear whatever you want.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self… When acting, you’re someone else.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of ‘Hannah Montana.’ That’s when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we’re not in the mood to act.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask.

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you’re doing something else or not.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.