Kirstin Maldonado

I've listened to a lot of different styles of music growing up, and they've all influenced me at different times in my life.

I want to inspire people to tear down their walls, especially for teenage girls.

I think it's cool to do a summer outdoor show because, growing up, like, those were always the shows and the concerts that I would get to see, where I would be sitting on the grass with my friends and hanging out, and it was such a moment.

I really wished I'd learned Spanish. I took it all in high school and was planning on trying to be fluent in it. I would get Selena tracks and sing with them and stuff like that.

My career started the second we auditioned for 'The Sing-Off' on NBC in 2011.

Moving to L.A. and making albums was an exciting outlet, but I always thought I'd be slumming it job to job in N.Y.C. with hopes of being on Broadway!

I thought I would move to New York and be on Broadway; that was my goal. I was very work-focused.

I couldn't be more excited about doing 'Kinky Boots' on Broadway; it's going to be a delicious challenge!

When I was a kid I was always listening and singing along to Disney compilation CDs.

I fulfill a part of myself in Pentatonix. And then, we can all step away individually and do the specific things we like because we're all so different in musical tastes.

Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!