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

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

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.

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

If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing." Why make a painting if you don't feel like you have to for something inside of yourself? Why make a song if you don't feel like you have to because there's something that you need to get out? And when you're an actor and you're not performing text that you've written, I think there's this bizarre disconnect with the must-ness of it.

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.