There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew

My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

I write most of my stuff. When I'm rejected in music, it hurts worse than when I don't get a role, because that's someone else's vision. If they don't see me as that part, even if I believe I'm the perfect person for it, that's their vision. The music is my vision.

With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings."

The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.