In coming to New York, I got my first Broadway show six months after I got here. So that song, 'Movin' Too Fast,' means so much to me, knowing that feeling where it's just where you imagined yourself, but it's flying by you at a million miles an hour.

We all have something in our past that is gripping us, and 'Violet' is very much about leaving those things behind.

I've done a lot of research about the Civil Rights movement, and I'm fascinated with how difficult it would have been for a black man to show feelings toward a white woman in that time period.

I like directors who come ready to challenge you to ask the right questions about your character, and I know that directors appreciate that in actors as well.