I'm So Used To Swimming With The

I'm So Used To Swimming With The Piranhas. And They're Really Not That Bad.

Very Few Interviews Are A Conversation. It's Usually A Question And I Have To Answer For Two Minutes. By The End Of The Day, I Kind Of Feel Gross. It's Like You Go To Dinner With A Friend And Then You Get Home And You're Like: "ugh, I Dominated That Conversation Too Much. I Wish I Let Them Talk More." That's How It Feels For Me Every Day I Do Press.

I Had Started Acting When I Was 7, And I Was Always Wrong. I Would Always Get To The Very End [of The Audition], But I Wasn't A Perfect Package Of One Thing. I Wasn't A Cliche, And It Always Worked Against Me. I Wasn't Pretty Enough To Play The Popular Girl, I Wasn't Mousy Enough To Be The Mousy Girl. Then There Was A Tv Show That Toni Collette Was Starring In. And When A Role To Play A Girl Who Was Struggling With Identity Came, I Thought: "oh, This Is What I Was Supposed To Do. Everything's Leading Up To This Moment." I Was 18. I Was Like, "this Is It." I Didn't Get It. And I Was Devastated.

I Have A Lot Of Different Influences. Everything From Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - Just A Lot Of Different Artists.

I Would Go Into Periods Of Depression In My Life, And I Would Feel So Alone. I Felt That There Was No One Who Understood How I Felt, Either On Tv Or In Music, And Writing Really Helped Me Change What I Thought And How I Felt About Myself.