Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

All the musicians that I know want to act.

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

I had an upbringing in which I was allowed to be free and use my mind. My parents only helped me to be myself. It was only in my teenage years that I met people who made me start having doubts about who I was. They said you shouldn't be confident, you shouldn't be strong. It is only when you meet those other people that you lose confidence.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.