On her physical illnesses: "The lupus was a huge thing that happened to me, then the kidney thing happened, and that was the scariest because, yeah, you could actually die. The moment I came out (of a two-hour transplant surgery) I remember starting to shake and my mom screaming and then being put back under. That's what makes you go, 'You know what, I'm just so happy to be alive.'"
On returning to acting: "I want to do movies so bad. I want to do TV so bad. I find that I look too young most of the time, or people can't separate the two [the real Selena from a character], which bums me out. So I continue to audition, and I just have to wait for whenever my time is."