It's easy to question yourself and ask if you're doing a good job, but there are so many different factors to landing a role. I remind myself that a lot of it is completely out of my control.

In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I'm wearing - it's a great way to dress up a plain outfit!

People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

Growing up, theres a lot of pressure to be normal. But normal isnt as fun as being yourself.

I just remind myself that the gifts I have, I've been given for a reason and that every day brings new opportunities to use them.

Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love

I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

I really do like Bruno Mars. I think he's very good. And I love Maroon 5.

I'm really passionate about music.

Songwriting is actually a really great outlet. I kind of recommend it. You get to sum up whatever is going on in your life in a song, then perform it really passionately.

I definitely get stage fright.

They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.

Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.

My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.

BJJ is like trying to solve a puzzle that keeps changing..so magnificent... yet completely humbling.

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.

Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.

Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.