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?"

Even though I was performing all the time as an actress and I was doing all of these plays as a kid, there's a vulnerability about being a musician that you don't get [when] you perform somebody else's work.

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

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

Perhaps like attracts like, and that's why I found myself in a circle of women who are so passionate about making music.

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

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.