BACK when we were first making records, you didn't just MAKE the music, you PUT a GREAT deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the WHOLE thing.
GROWING up in a FAMILY of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and LOWS... and having a common language with them is great because you have SHORTHANDSPEECH.
I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it's because of the WAY I have been brought up; I wouldn't want my family to feel that CRINGEMOMENT. Dance is an ART for me.
When I think about protest, I worry so MUCH that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the ROOT of it is this IDEA of telling the TRUTH in public.
There's an INSECUREPART of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't KNOW why, I wish I could overcome it because it GIVES me an anxiety FEELING.
There are some GOOD people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'CLOCK and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't EVEN fathom why they're LYING. They just lie because that's what they do.