Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.