Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

I live in heels. Give me a pair of flip-flops and I'll trip all over myself.

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

Most Kids Are Confused Whether School Is More Important Than God Or God Is More Important.

Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith — and faith will triumph.

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

You have to do things for yourself, not for anybody else.