The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.

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.

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.

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

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.

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