It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.

I've been acting since I was 2 and have always been on camera but doing a video is different because when you're acting, you pretend the camera's not there and you just do the scene and with a music video you're right in the camera so it feels weird sometimes.

You've got to be fine with who you are.

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

Kids look up to me, and it's really incredible to be in that position.

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.