I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

I think that usually I'm just drawn to something that's different from something that I've done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.

Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.

We're in a different time right now, and I think we're ready to see a different type of female hero.

I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.