People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. They have everything, they have money, and they're just mean-spirited. It's crazy.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.

Turquoise is my birthstone; Im a Sagittarius.

I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny pretty things. I stay in the moment, because when you do that the hype goes away.