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

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

I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted to start playing music. It felt like the only thing that I could do in response to that. And I've been playing ever since.

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

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.

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

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.