For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

I started playing music when I was really young.

I do both music and acting at the same time. To me they are both really important parts of how I express myself and understand myself in the world. I don't ever want to have to choose one over the other in any sort of grand sense of things. Obviously with scheduling you wind up making choices.

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.