What is your go-to dance move?
There’s this little shuffle thing that I always do. I did while I was on the show too. It’s like a double two-step while you kind of look like your shoveling. It’s like a dig—that’s what I am going to call it, “the dig.”
How have you evolved as an artist since competing on The Voice?
So much. It has really disciplined me. Before, I was never on a schedule. I would rehearse when I would rehearse; do vocal warm-ups when I felt like it. I couldn’t have that mindset on the show because there was so much to do in such a short amount of time that I had to be on a schedule. Every performance really counts on the show, so there is no room to make mistakes. I’ve never done so many vocal warm-ups in my life.
What do you hope to accomplish in the next five years?
I would like to have everything that I want to do musically accomplished. There are so many other things that I still want to get into like acting, but I have to do one thing at a time. My focus for the past few years has been music, but I’m really passionate about it all. I just want to make sure I am doing them correctly and putting the right amount of time in each thing. In five years, I would like to have been able to tour the world and for my music to be popular. I would really like to have made a name for myself in the music business—Grammys and VMAs. So then I can focus on getting myself back into acting.
What advice would you give to a young artist starting out?
It is not easy. It is very hard and it takes a lot of discipline, patience, and focus. You have to invest in yourself and you have to put time in yourself because it’s a business. If you really want to make a career out of singing or dancing or acting, you have to set that time aside as if it was a job. You have to set that schedule and it takes discipline and hard work.