I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.

After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.

I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

The average person tells a few white lies.

When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.

I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.