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

If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing." Why make a painting if you don't feel like you have to for something inside of yourself? Why make a song if you don't feel like you have to because there's something that you need to get out? And when you're an actor and you're not performing text that you've written, I think there's this bizarre disconnect with the must-ness of it.

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

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.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

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

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.