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" In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble. "

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" As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play. "

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" I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive. "

" Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever. "

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" Although I missed home, North Carolina is a spectacular place to spend four months. Wilmington has a great downtown area. It is not too small town or too big city. The people were really welcoming and nice. The weather was lovely. "

" If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?' "

" I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing. "

" The old footage of my dad, I always knew we were cut from the same cloth, because my dad was such a renegade and always marched to the beat of his own drum. To see where we were both dancing and being silly together, it's too beautiful for words. I was really happy to have that. "

" I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens. "

" I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one. "

" I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel. "

" Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not a major label act. "

" Like everybody I have many different sides. "

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" My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer. "