“I’m trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It’s not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.”

You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it’s like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.

I listen to music to when I’m feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

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

It’s hard to see someone with a ‘perfect’ body and be like, ‘Why can’t I be like her?’ But that person was born to be who she is, and you’re born to be who you are.

I’m not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

I live every day, day to day. I will go wherever life takes me. I’m not questioning it.

Time will heal everything.

Whenever I’m out and I hear something, I’m writing. It’s the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.

I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.

I’ve always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

You would see me cover every Adele, Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. Then I’d have to do ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ and ‘Crazy Train,’ and it was a really weird combination.

Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy… music is so helpful in that area of life.

Everything I wore was pink and sparkly. And I had an obsession with headbands. I felt like I rocked them, though!

Now, I am perfectly willing to just enjoy my career by choosing roles simply because I consider them to be a challenge and doing the best possible job I can.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no – a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before.

Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

You can either be angry for what you don’t have or thankful for what you do have. Do your best and God will do the rest.

Optimism is my best defense.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.