My dad kept me away from people who treat children wrong. It's just amazing that there is such a way to raise a person without giving them complexes. But nobody does it. They think it should be the old school. But look at the products. Wouldn't it be great if you could avoid the complexes? Then you could deal with the complexes of life.

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

Like everybody I have many different sides.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

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.