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

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.

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.

The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.