I remember seeing 'Chicago' and 'Legally Blonde' and waiting by the stage door.
Ever since I was little, Broadway had always been my passion.
When I was a kid I was always listening and singing along to Disney compilation CDs.
I started voice lessons when I was eight years old.
Coming out of a group, it's always really fun and creative to do your own thing.
I thought I would move to New York and be on Broadway; that was my goal. I was very work-focused.
Adulting is hard.
That's the power of the Internet: you can literally find everything.
It is based off the pentatonic scale, which is a five-note scale in music. And there are five of us. We were going to be The Pentatonix, but we dropped the 'The' and added an 'x' to try and be cooler.
The experiences you gain by doing something solo - you have such a great work effort there as well, one we all have now - we can all bring it back to the group.
I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.
I do want to do more acting! I love it. It's so fun.
Even before Pentatonix, I always thought that I would be out here in New York doing Broadway and doing musical theater. That was what gave me the passion for music in the first place, so it's been really, really, cool.
I feel like I have to be on my game because I have to handle my solo stuff and Pentatonix stuff, so it has really kept me on my toes in a good way.
I always wanted to do musical theater. That was where I saw my life going since I was a musical theater major in college before I went to Pentatonix.
When Pentatonix started, my whole vision of what I thought my life was gonna be completely changed - in a great way, obviously. I never thought that I would have the confidence to do this.
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 always wanted to write a sad song that sounds happy. I think everyone can relate to this emotion.
I love singing our Christmas songs every chance we get. It's really cute.
We're very comfortable in our own sound and what we do, and so that's where our inspiration is from - just things that we are truly inspired by or that we think will work well for us, and not just because something is Top 40.
