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.

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.

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.

Love me for who I am, not what you want me to be.

Each new day begins with a meditation, and ends with a purifying catharsis.

Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.