As a kid, growing up, as far as I was concerned, I was Luke Skywalker. Any sort of small victory or any adversity I would come up against at school, I was like, 'How would Luke Skywalker deal with this?' Everybody was the Empire; anybody who bullied me at school was the Empire.

I've become really aware since putting out music that some people can't get past the acting thing. But acting was never what I meant to do.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

Music was something I chose that I came to as a kid, and acting was something that was suggested to me.

We know that recognition and intrinsic motivation are important to our success, but the key is finding ways to effectively operationalize them.

If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically.

You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.