When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

As soon as I saw myself beginning to be way too comfortable on a film set or TV set, and not stimulated by it the way that I had been that had brought me to want to be there professionally and creatively, was the moment that I started getting really, really sad. I decided, "Okay, I just want to actually be here, how can I make this be interesting for me?"

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

You don't have that interaction with the audience when you're acting for film; you're kind of acting in a vacuum. You're acting for a disinterested grip who just wants to reply to his wife about what time he'll be home for dinner. Everyone else on a film set is also there because they're paid to be there. They're not there because they're passionate about what you do necessarily.