I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.
As an actor, you always look for things that will stretch you and that are different than you are, so that you can surprise yourself, and you want to surround yourself with the highest caliber of people that will make you look good.
A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.
Being on Twitter, live tweeting some of the episodes, I get direct feedback from people.
I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.
I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.
She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.
People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.