In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

There's so much to explore! And personally, I don't know. It's such a crapshoot.

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.