I feel like if you don't put too much expectations and too much high hopes into things, everything will fall into place.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.

I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.

I'm a fan of Rihanna. I have all her albums. I love her music; she's a great performer. We've both gone on to great things. It's all love.

Working with John Stamos is a ton of fun. He's just the biggest sweetheart - and he's just still gorgeous as can be. Such a hottie!

My mom was a cheerleader and had me as a teenager. I remember her giving me some pom-poms and teaching me how to do some splits when I was 3 or 4.

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

Instagram. Pictures. Lots of pictures! I don't really care to read everyone's thoughts.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

Channing Tatum. He's a cutie-pie, but he's also got swag. Before him, my crush was Brad Pitt forever!

I've always loved 'Umbrella.' Funny enough, my ex-husband wrote that, and I'm not saying it was meant for me or anything - people will start twisting this - it is Rihanna's song! But I've always loved it.

'Dip it Low' is pretty highly requested for me. I get that a lot.

I had a really great performance with Steven Tyler in the movie 'Be Cool.' I performed 'Cryin',' so we recorded the song beforehand. But I didn't get to meet him until I hit the stage with him, and we had a live performance with 30,000 people in the audience, and that was for the movie.

If there's an inkling of abuse, I have to move on. Even jealousy - seems cute it first, but if they're getting in my head, it's not right for me. It's okay to be alone. It's okay to be single. The right thing will come along.

I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

I sang the 'Kim Possible' song for their cartoon series 'Kim Possible'.

Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were younger, and they were all skinny and all cute. As a teen, I definitely had, like, an extra 30 pounds of weight.

I do love pears. All types of pears. Not too firm, not too soft; they have to be at the right time of their life.

Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.

Since high school, I've always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.

When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.

I'm a grown woman. The haters are definitely wrong if they think I care.

Janet Jackson - I enjoy her style and her dancing.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.

I'm very passionate, and I care about the people that are around me.

There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.

I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.

I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that.

Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.

When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously.

Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.

You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.