"I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am."
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"I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception."
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"I've met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I'm sure you've seen a UFO. Haven't all of us seen something flying in the sky, and it's at some random time of night that doesn't make sense, and it's not the shape of a plane? I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person."
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"When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate."
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"I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life."
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"As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts."
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"I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now."
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"I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater."
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"What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it."
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"We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake."
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"Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally."
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"The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know."
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"I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician."
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"If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice."
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"Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political."
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"A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn."
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"I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from."
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"I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be."
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"Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up."
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"I'm having an unbelievable time on the road. I am taking the time to explore each new city in a way I never have before."
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