One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.

I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.

And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job pretty soon after.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.