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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.