Quotes from Kat Graham

I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

I love being on tour I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it I love it.

There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.

Tupac has always been somebody who represented a higher consciousness of what it means on both sides of the coin to be black in America. He and Prince were leaders who moved to the beat of their own drum, and I can only hope to follow in their footsteps.

I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.

I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.

My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.

I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media can put African-American women in the background. Then, unfortunately, what happens is, subconsciously, our culture begins to assess that as reality.

I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.

I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.

'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.

I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.

When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.

It's important for me to just be myself - in fashion. A lot of people overlook that side of me because they're scared of it, but that's just who I am.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?

When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'

If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.

Before 'The Vampire Diaries,' I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am's attention, and I went on tour with him.

When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.