I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.
When I wake up in the morning, I don't think of myself as being better than anybody else. I think of myself as a good hitter.
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.
Sometimes I have to try to remind myself that I don't try to strike out hitters.
I was a rugby player, I was a hockey player. You know, I just love to challenge myself, and I love to compete.
I never look at myself as a black player. I think of myself as a hockey player that wants to be the best player in the league.
I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
I'm lucky in a lot of ways. And in my family life, my home life, is where I count myself the luckiest.
I had a complicated home life, and my teachers, predominantly my theater teachers and my English teachers, were very dedicated to taking care of me in a particular way. And in doing so, I think I developed a very easy rapport with people older than myself.
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state - you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you, and so it's heartbreaking to hear people say snarky things.
I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.
I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.
I don't put myself out there - I'm really a homebody.
They used to call me 'Touchdown T.' I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, 'I'm going to run for three touchdowns.' I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.
I'd love to challenge myself and play characters that overcome experiences like homelessness or abuse, because social justice is really important to me.
My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.
