Quotations and Poems

* “I make a lot of my own clothes. I don`t like wearing the same thing everybody else wears.”

* “When I go home, I still have to clean my room, I still have to do the dishes. We have somebody come every now and then to do that stuff, but my mom still makes me clean before she comes.”

* “If music could go my way, I would say music. But, y`know, movies pay the bills. And I could always play a musician in a movie.”

* “I`m not too hard on myself about dieting and exercise. Some stars are a little too bony for me. What happened to the booty?”

* “You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially.”

* “When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn`t get to because I was working.”

* “When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he`s just really cool.”

* “When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it`s all good, but I don`t take it too seriously.”

* “Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He`s definitely a cowboy. He`s from Texas.”

* “They had us in Austin, Texas three weeks before we started shooting. I had to train with real cheerleaders from UT, me and four other girls.”

* “There hasn`t been one highlight that stands out… but touring and performing has been great.”

* “The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I`ve admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.”

* “That`s my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.”

* “Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.”

* “People that you wouldn`t even imagine that I would hang out with. It was weird, but I like hanging out with different, eclectic people.”

* “My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I`ve been doing this for twelve years.”

* “Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.”

* “It wasn`t until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.”

* “I`m going in the studio at the end of March and working on my next album which is my Sophomore album here and it`ll be my Junior album overseas.”

* “I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.”

* “I would just love to do something where I`d have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.”

* “I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.”

* “I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.”

* “I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.”

* “I like doing simple things like that, just driving around and talking and maybe park at the beach and hang out at the beach and talk.”

* “I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.”

* “I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I`m sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.”

* “I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.”

* “I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.”

* “I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.”

* “I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.”

* “I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.”

* “I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.”

* “I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.”

* “I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that`s a good sign.”

* “For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.”

* “Even in relationships, I don`t get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I`m young and I`ve got plenty of time later in the future.”

* “Even if I don`t have the money to take vocal lessons, I`ll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.”

* “But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.”

* “Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.”

* “Because I get nervous all the time. It`s weird but I think it`s fun and it`s refreshing. It`s always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything.”

* “Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.”

* “I would just love to do something where I’d have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.”

* “Remember when we used to say, ain’t always gonna be this way.”

* “Jay-Z and L.A. Reid are really backing me up right now,”