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

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

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

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.

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.