Alyson Stoner

I think what's important, as an artist who wants to be multi-dimensional, is learning how to shape-shift into those different paths fluidly and frequently.

I've had a very long career of being conservative.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

To this day, I remember vividly Missy Elliott, Ludacris, and my grandma riding in a golf cart to set. My grandma went back to Ohio and told her bowling friends, 'Guess what? I was riding to set with Missy and Ridiculous!'

For all the challenges I've faced in my path to self-acceptance, I've also traveled it with my own set of luck and privilege.

Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have to use your voice and use your inflections. So it's definitely a challenge to transfer from each genre of entertainment.

Being famous as a kid is weird and unhealthy.

I can love people of every gender identity and expression. It is the soul that captivates me.

My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.

The first boy that I had a crush on and dated was Cole Sprouse... from 'Suite Life.'

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

My sound is sort of India Arie meets Colbie Caillat. It's got a sweet-funk to it.