My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles, respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.

I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.

I've always loved being active, and I used to do sports - basketball, soccer, volleyball - growing up.

I think it's important to figure out you and to have fun and to be dating and to figure out what you like and what you don't like. It's what growing up is all about.

A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.