I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

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.

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

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.

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

I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based.

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.