I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.