• "Life is full of risks anyway, why not take them?"
• "I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."
• "If I can change bodies with anyone it would be Britney Spears because how can you not like Britney Spears?"
• I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back."
• "I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base."
• "When I'm walking down the red carpet and everybody is screaming my name, all I'm doing is worrying... that they're thinking, like, 'Oh, she didn't wave at me, she's such a bitch!"
• I'll proberly pursue doing more movies, but not horror movies or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodi Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.
• "It's flattering that people want to know so much about me and want to take the time to make up that many things about me."
• "I don't want to keep doing all commercial stuff. But timing is everything. I got this one script where this girl wants to join a Latino gang and she gets raped. I can't be doing that right now. I don't think that's appropriate."
• "But I'm not going to go and lose my virginity in a movie yet, because the second I do that, you can't go back. That makes me much older in terms of film and on the screen."
• "Girls my age dress so much raunchier than I'd ever imagine myself dressing. I understand that I'm a role model, though, and I have to look out for that. I have a 10-year-old sister, too. But you also want to be appealing to guys and stuff, that's just something girls feel. It's hard. You want to be that girl that's unattainable to all the guys because there are so many other girls out there that are like that."
• "People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something."
• "You can't really complain because it's what you have to accept is going to happen when you're in the spotlight. And you want this. And I understand that. At the same time, it's hard when you're just waking up and you're going out to get your mail and there are people there. It bugs me sometimes, of course. But I don't do it on purpose, you know, I try to just live my life, I'm not doing stuff like that to get noticed." [on not having privacy]
• "I'm not doing Playboy, no. Never. They contacted my publicist and they asked if I would do their 20 questions spread, which is not a nude photo that they do with it. It's a regular photo. But I do have a Disney movie coming out and a young fan base and I'm not interested in doing Playboy right now in my life." [20 Dec 2004]