[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.

I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

All that evilness is always just from pain and fear, and that's what I've come to understand. I've come to understand people now. Before, I would blame them for treating me in such a naïve way. I don't hate evil, vicious people anymore.

I never think I have success even when I have it, for better or for worse.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.