Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a cameo in a show or do a movie, it's a lot of fun and it's always great stepping outside of yourself and either playing a bizarro version of yourself or playing a character.

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

My school life was very much a wandering experience. I was having trouble in school and I was not making a lot of friends. So coming home and actually improvising on the piano and just coming up with melodies was an escape for me.

Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.