I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the same thing with music. When I'm writing a song or I'm in the studio, those memories, that's epic.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward.

I'd like to do something that hits close to home.