Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.

I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

I've known since day one of working on Spring Awakening - back in 1999 - that it was special.

I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

Find something you’re passionate about and you know, do something.

New York is who I am.