Zendaya

My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

I've loved Michael Jackson since the minute I was born. He's probably the most talented person ever. He was able to create such an amazing career and be probably the biggest star we've ever had.

I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'