“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’m not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I’m passionate about.

You don’t have to have much to show how much you care.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‘Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.’

Don’t take everything so seriously. And just be happier.

Everyone is beautiful, everyone is perfect and everyone is lovely.

There’s always going to be someone who doesn’t like you.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ’cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you.

Love your flaws

I’m willing to take the brunt for fighting in what I believe in.

If we give a little love, maybe we can change the world.

Only be with somebody if they make you feel like the best version of yourself. You can’t sacrifice yourself for anybody, you know?

Know your truth. No one can ever take that away from you.

When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it too.

Every time you’re faced with something ugly, focus on something beautiful. What you focus on expands. Only you can change your reality.

Acting for me was an escape and it wasn’t until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow.

Acting had always been the social scene I’d fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

Ever since I started acting, I’ve always spoken to our people about identity. I’ve spoken to kids, telling them: “Where do I get my strength to push through the barriers to get me where I’m at today? It’s my culture and my traditions, you know?

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing… getting back to reality.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.