Beloved teen star JoJo Siwa is an inspiration to millions of fans around the world, but when it comes to her own personal motivators, she says she looks to the “good humans of the world”—including today’s kids—to find encouragement.

During an ABC broadcast special unveiling of the 2020 TIME 100, TIME’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people, on Tuesday, 17-year-old Joelle Joanie “JoJo” Siwa spoke about why she looks up to the very same kids that she’s entertaining.

“What inspires me the most is the good humans in the world. You know, the people who love everybody, who support everybody and who really accept everyone for who they are,” she said. “And, of course, the kids of today. They inspire me to keep doing what I’m doing and to keep having fun and to keep being a kid.”

By Shirley Halperin- August 2020- VARIETY

Call it a match made in internet heaven. Some six years after JoJo Siwa, 17, first started tinkering with music on her computer and happened upon her pop predecessor JoJo, who, at age 13, had a No. 1 hit with the 2004 song “Leave (Get Out),” the two met IRL at the Variety offices — with social distancing protocols in place — to interview each other.