With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

Dreams, they're what sets us apart from being mere a brain and a body.

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.

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

I can write a song in the back of the bus, where I am right now, or in my living room, and I can perform it that night and have an instant reciprocal exchange - an emotional, impactful exchange - and it's a less technical medium. It's a pure expression from my soul to other souls.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

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