Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.

It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

That's really all I want, to be able to change the world with my voice.

I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.

I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously, bitterly, to exorcise the old monsters.

The story begins only when the book closes.

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

The cross is the ladder to heaven.