Most people spend their lives on their endeavors, and I get the privilege to have been doing this since I was five. I get to go play and have fun and entertain people.

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.

The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.

It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.

I don't really have a certain format that I go by.

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.

Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

Here, there, every where

Don’t let either hate or evil conquer you.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire, ' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb.

Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.