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.

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

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.

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

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.

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.