"I love where I'm at. It feels so nice to have success for just being who I am."

"Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! Ditzy is not editing yourself."

"You have to ignore people's expectations and meet your own. First and foremost, you should just make yourself happy. Because if you're happy, it'll come through."

"I want to be a diva...like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-diet-Coke-around."

"Faith has helped me to be a strong person and stay level headed. It brings me peace. In this business you definitely need peace."

"Just believe in yourself and who you are and that you can accomplish anything if you put your mind to it. To love yourself would be the biggest hope for girls today."

"I love to sing and that's what I want to do the most. But there are so many other things you have to do. It's frustrating because all you want to do is sing. It's all part of the business, and you have to do all the other stuff. I just like to go on stage and perform."

"Natural beauty is really happiness with who you are. It you like who you are on the inside, that'll come through on the outside."

"I'm such a sucker for sappy songs. I'm a big romantic, and I love love. I love singing about it and listening to songs about it"

"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff."

"I'd go to concerts and think, 'That's exactly what I want to do."

"I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going." - about losing a spot on The Mickey Mouse Club to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera"

"I want people to fall in love with my voice before my image."

"Is there, like, maids for, like, celebrities?"

"Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea."

"I think I need to go, um...drop some kids of at the pool."