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.

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 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.

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.

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.