I remember I wanted to be Zorro, but I also wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I obviously had ideas above my station.

Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.

Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in as many days.

The way you react to each challenge forms who you become.

I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.