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

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 songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

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.