I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.

We should never listen to our feelings. They lead us astray.

It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.