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.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based.

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.

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.

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

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