I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.

I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.

It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

Love me like you'll never see me again.