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.

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

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.

The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

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.