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

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

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

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.

Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.