I do both music and acting at the same time. To me they are both really important parts of how I express myself and understand myself in the world. I don't ever want to have to choose one over the other in any sort of grand sense of things. Obviously with scheduling you wind up making choices.

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When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

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I started playing music when I was really young. by Aleksa Palladino

I started playing music when I was really young.

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For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

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Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

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One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

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I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other. by Aleksa Palladino

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

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I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

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Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

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Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

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I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

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