I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.

You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Singin' in the Rain. I watched those, over and over again, so of course, I want to do musicals.

If you look at everything I've done, each character is so wildly different from each other, and that's what "The L Word" afforded me the opportunity to do. I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.