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.

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.

You perform the thing that you made, that's inside of you, and to subject that to any kind of scrutiny is terrifying. It's still terrifying to me.

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.

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.

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