“The most important person in my life is my father. He’s an amazing role model, he is loyal to his family and he has shown me what it takes to be a good person. Although he doesn’t always do the...

“My mother because she formed every way I approached the world. When I asked my mom why all of daddy’s friends looked funny and she said ‘what are you talking about?’ and I said well their eyes....

  “It was after football practice. My buddies and I were hanging out, and my mom walks and she’s like ‘zack, don't forget you have piano lessons in forty-five minutes, and I was mortified,...

“ Without my advantages, I wouldn’t get to be the person I am now. I get to go to a private school and I live in Santa Barbara so those are good. I am not poor. I get the advantage of being in a better...

“He had just gotten back from the hospital. The doctors thought he had a heart attack, so they put a heart monitor on him. I wanted to make him dinner since he was still weak. I came into the room and...

“My favorite part of my music career is that music is my career. Being able to perform music outside of school, and educating kids for my job is, well, I can’t ask for anything more than that. I...

“I don’t think I have any regrets. I’ve definitely had regrets that I learned from, so the only big regret that I feel—if I had a big regret—would be something I didn’t learn from or something...