When you're 10, 11, 12, and you're watching your idols, you feel like you know them. I found more in common with these people when they talked in interviews than I did with my classmates.

At school, I felt out of place. I was bullied. I would think, 'These kids don't like me, they don't accept me,' but I felt like in the entertainment industry, I would fit in.

I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they love the business and they love their parents, they feel like they are letting their parents down if they don't work to the bone. As a parent, you should be the safe place.

It's very interesting because as an actor, you play a litany of different roles, but to play both of them within the same day multiple times, in quick successions, it's different and sort of a really rare opportunity that I was initially terrified by and a little bit daunted by.

'Liv and Maddie' is very near and dear to my heart. I'm very proud of it.

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

I know that sounds dramatic, but shooting everything twice and going through the emotions of two different humans was crazy for me at 16. In terms of my career, that was something that really, really formed me.

I believe one's responsibility as a role model begins and ends with their perception of what a good role model is.

It's not like you can say, 'This is the right side and this is the wrong side,' because obviously, a happy person is never going to want to inflict pain on somebody else. So the bullies are really victims themselves and yada, yada, yada, pop psychology, but it's true.

Kristin Chenoweth had been my personal idol since I was, like, 6 or 7.

Your average teenager can't relate to a girl who casts magic spells. But she does understand someone who is torn about her upbringing and the situation in her life.

There's no one who, at some point, hasn't had the feeling their life is on the rails and they can't do anything about it.

I'm very competitive and academic.

I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen years.

It's hard to be a teenager. It's lonely, and you feel like no one understands you. I think that's natural, and my mother let me have the space to feel that way.

Sure, they can take your binder, but they can't take whatever special thing you have inside you.

Playing two people is definitely difficult, but it's made possible by everyone around me, and it's a big team effort.

One of my favorite things about working on 'Liv and Maddie' is the creative environment that has been designed for us by our lovely director, producers, and writers.

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.

The whole novelty and challenge of playing twins is something that has kept things wonderfully fresh for me. Just the pure joy and freedom of being able to explore so many facets of not just one, but two, different characters at once is a very singular experience.

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.