There are so many different areas to explore. There are so many different types of people. It can crush your dreams or help them come true.

I could never be Charlie Chaplin. But the films that were made by people like him, or Gene Wilder, or John Candy, the people that inspired me so much were the people that were able to combine humor with heartbreak so beautifully and fluidly. Those films I think were what inspired me to want to come to L.A. and audition for movies.

By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963. So we had a dialect coach, which is like going to visit France and having to translate all your emotions into French, and French isn't your first language. I had to go through that filter, so it was interesting.

You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.

Being able to work on projects that I love and care about has been the greatest gift ever, and that's been a pretty recent thing in my life. But success for me at some point will probably be having a family.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.