What better way is there to raise money for such an important organization like Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS than by celebrating all types of bodies, all types of relationships, and just acceptance overall?
I was so happy to be able to be a part of Broadway Bares and had the best time ever!
I love snow cones.
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 would definitely go back to 'Kinky Boots' because that family, I think, is so wonderful and incredible, and my role and my part were just so fun to play. But I would definitely love to do other shows as well.
Gwen Stefani was just the most incredible frontwoman. She was the total cool girl.
I think YouTube has been super instrumental in our success as well, because I think there's something really important about seeing and hearing what we're doing.
We always try to make every song we do sound like a track. It's vocal, but we want it to be really full so no one really can even know if it's a cappella. It's not like it's missing anything, per se.
I feel like a lot of like the old-timey Christmas songs, the classics, a lot of it is very vocal. A lot of harmonies and, like, crooners, it puts you in that holiday spirit, I feel like.
It's really, really cool that we've been able to have these opportunities to surround ourselves with these people because they're brilliant. Like, Dolly Parton is legendary, and she's maybe the nicest person I've ever met in my entire life and, like, amazing.
Literally, when the pilot came out for 'Glee,' I think we had a watching party or something. We were all seniors, and everyone all of a sudden in the show choir were so excited. We were like, 'This show is awesome. It's so cool. This is exactly us.'
Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.
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.
When the movie 'Selena' came out, I got really obsessed with her, and my mom and I went and saw it.
Jennifer Lopez, she's my girl! And Shakira... I really like her.
I want people to see that I'm just a girl who went for her dreams.
I want to inspire people to tear down their walls, especially for teenage girls.
So many people don't believe in themselves; people are worth so much more than what social media shows.
Every single 'no' that you get, you know that that was an experience that you learned from. Keep going.
Jennifer Lopez and Sara Bareilles are my tops! Both incredibly hard-working and talented women.
