As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.

Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

I have had so many bad auditions.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.