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.

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

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?"

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

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

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