Rumer Willis

Rumer: I was a dork, a computer nerd had braces and glasses. I wasn't necessarily too active in getting in the social crowd, so I definitely understand the entirely not fitting in, but I think everyone has their own version of feeling a bit out of place and one of the great things I think that we have the ability to do is show that it's alright. You can have that awkward phase, so It's not about whether you're the popular girl or the nerdy one but just about feeling confident and comfortable with kind of where you fit and who you are and accessing that and making that your own.

Rumer: When I was growing up, I was trained in opera – but when you have that foundation, I don't think I'll go out and sing opera. When you have that training, you can go anywhere. My dad is honestly responsible for my taste in music. I never listened to Billboard charts or top 100 when I was growing up. I was listening to anything from Led Zeppelin to Billy Holliday to Creedance Clearwater Revival, and Joe Cochran. For me, jazz has been something I have always really loved. I would love to find a way to make it relevant, for our generation. I was just watching the original Woodstock, watching Joe Cochran do that song – every part of his body is a part of that song. And the music was about so much more than just selling an album. In the future I hope there are really more artists where it's about the music, and the passion. And that is what people love to see and love to watch – it's people speaking from personal experience.

Rumer: (If her upbringing was normal) Yeah, just a normal family. People ask me, "Don't you wish you had a normal life?" And I go, "To me, I don't know anything else. That's the only experience I have." Honestly – normal. But that's not even a real world, when it comes to families, because everyone has different things in their family, that they deal with. But I wouldn't trade how I grew up for anything. I have traveled to some amazing places, and got to see some amazing things. Whether or not I would have traded that for anything else, I don't think I would ever want to.