Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.

When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

I am an ordinary woman from a Tamil family.

I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

That's what's cool about working for Disney: everyone gets along. It's like a family.

I find the idea that some kids go into acting because of their parents butt-clenchingly embarrassing. I've gone out of my way to prove myself as a separate being. I don't want to be seen as a subset of someone else.