There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

I have a lot of affection to give, and sometimes I'm a little overbearing.

I have been snowboarding since I was seven years old.

My absolute favorite thing about working on 'Liv and Maddie' is my cast and crew. The people that I spend almost every hour of every day with. Your cast has great influence over the quality of your life, and I've been blessed with not just a cast, but a family.

Growing up, I've always been the baby. I'm the younger of two girls in my family, my friends are always older than I am, and I'm a rather small person in stature as well.

I'm not a huge party girl. When I turned 18, the thing I was most excited about was being able to vote for the first time.

I know I don't look edgy, but I have found that in my personality, I just have this natural energy that I enjoy edgier characters, and I really want a chance to sink my teeth into something like that.

I would love to do Broadway. That was my original aim, when I first started acting when I was 13. I wanted to do stage; I wanted to do musicals.

I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

Jessica Lange is my all-time favorite actress.

I had the poster of 'Hairspray' right above my bed. And I had the biggest crush on Zac Efron, of course.

I made myself memorize how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism in under 3 seconds when I was 6 years old because my sister told me it was the longest word she knew.

I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted.

My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!

I take 'signs' in my life as seriously as advice from family and friends or proven facts. The universe speaks through events, y'all!

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.

I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.

I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.

I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.

No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

I have tons of music stashed.

It's a very interesting thing because I can start mixing a song and leave the room and come back and maybe just slide one lever to a certain point, and it just - it's a certain feeling that it gives you when you know it's right.

Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs is a hustler. In fact, he's what I call an extreme hustler.

When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.

I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.

No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.

I work hard making music - that's how I earn a living.

The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.

Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'

I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet.

'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.

I just want people to hear the music the way it's suppose to sound, the way we meant for them to hear it. You sit in the studio all this time and make the music, tweak it, try to get it perfect. They should be able to hear it that way.

In L.A., we listen to everything. If it's banging, it's banging - we don't care where it's from.

If you know anything about me and my history, you know I'm very particular about my projects.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.