Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.

There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.

I make my own quotes here's oneSuicide does help it helps make you realize that people care about you and they need you in life

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.