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

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.

I started playing music when I was really young.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

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.

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.

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