"One of my goals is to have this incredible body. I want to be strong, to be ripped."

"I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about."

"I think The 'Cheetah Girls' was originally supposed to be one film, but then it became two and three, which was a huge deal. But like all Disney franchises, they have to come to an end at some point. I was so grateful we went out with a bang. I think we died off peacefully."

"I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does."

"When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude."

"Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old."

"We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument."

"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."