I started playing music when I was really young.

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.

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

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.

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.

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