I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!

Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'

A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

Being on Twitter, live tweeting some of the episodes, I get direct feedback from people.

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.