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

You don't have that interaction with the audience when you're acting for film; you're kind of acting in a vacuum. You're acting for a disinterested grip who just wants to reply to his wife about what time he'll be home for dinner. Everyone else on a film set is also there because they're paid to be there. They're not there because they're passionate about what you do necessarily.

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

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

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.

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.

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.