“I don't get caught up in the whole potential, how-good-can-I-be, when-I-can-be-it thing. I've been hearing that since I was 13. I've heard that from every person on earth. So when you hear it, you're like, 'Eh, well, okay. I guess that's a compliment.' It's just a compliment of the work you're going to put in and the work you've been putting in.”