No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

I love to sing. Mostly about love and sex.

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.