Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.

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 always talk about if you want to be an artist, you have to be authentic because people can tell bullshit a mile away. There is nothing wrong with creating a character, standing behind that character, and that being an authentic performance piece, because that's a piece of art as well. But if you want to be an artist in any form, you have to know to come with it.

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

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

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.