“I’m very specific about scripts that I like. I don’t have a master plan or, like, a game plan. I don’t have a chart that I’m following or anything like that. I’m very much playing it by ear.”

I wouldn’t just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it.

I’ve always cared about fashion and what I look like.

I can tell that fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

I’ll never try to put on a fake image. I’m just Zac.

Honesty is most important, and it’s difficult when you’re young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it’s the only way you can test how far you can really go.

I can’t explain to you what it’s like to be a heartthrob. I don’t think I am a heartthrob.

I’m looking for a life partner and I’m not ready. I’m not emotionally mature enough.

You don’t have goggles, so you can’t see anything.

Hopefully they’ll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn’t always like High School Musical.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

If you really want your hair to look good, just don’t wash it for a day. That’s my secret.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it’s the only way you can test how far you can really go.

One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in.

I think if you’re fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk… why do that?

Don’t get me wrong – I’ve gone to a club. But I’d much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I’ll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!

Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.

Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.

Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.

And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

I like any reaction I can get with my music.

Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.