I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are ... your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled. If you don't study, if you don't work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day, you 'll never be able to communicate with people your artistry the way that you want!