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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

'High School Musical' is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

I, at high school, had a very select group of friends. I am still pretty tight with them now. I definitely have a lot more friends than I remember when I go back home!

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

I still have some very dear friends from school, and we get together whenever possible.

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.