All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

All the musicians that I know want to act.

My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

Music is kind of my everything.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

I made a joke with my sister... I said, "I don't know what's more nerve-wracking, job insecurity or job security." There's opportunities and things you compromise with both. When I had endless freedom of schedule, or when I commit to a movie for two months, then I could manage my music and go on the road.

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.