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 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?"

I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead.

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.

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.