The amount of time I spent on facing my negative conscious has been most of my struggle and changing my mind-set has been the biggest change in my life not my weight.

There is an energy in New York that is like nowhere else I've been, and I feel free there, and that is inspiring.

I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life.

The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.

Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.

I know that I cannot control anyone else's actions but my own, and how I choose to react to situations.

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.