I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way. One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs. But I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

It's really fun to say no sometimes. I just don't want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and - as a girl - it's important to know how to say no... and that no means no!

I actually did a lot of improvised movies or movies that were partially improvised.

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.

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.