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" As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform. "

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" It's only artists who can help artists. "

" Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not a major label act. "

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" I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself. "

" I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I can imagine as an artist. I felt time creeping up on me. "

" My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus because not only was I an actor touring, doing rock n' roll, but I was also a female front person making really muscular, male-dominated rock music. "

" I have such a beautiful, strong family and friends, and they are like everything to me. "

" I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors. "

" I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly. "

" I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing. "

" The praise for 'Cape Fear' will help me work more artfully - I can work with real artists, like Robert De Niro and the directors, and then go to artland, which is the best land to be in in this world. "

" TV is wild. You just play the role you're given, and you show up and do the best that you can. "

" I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people. "

" Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was. "

" I thrive on adversity. "

" My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school. "

" It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket. "

" In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength. "

" For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll theater. "

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" In my work, I'm always striving to be as honest as possible. "

" I always liken myself to the bearded lady. Because I'm an actress turned musician, a woman doing male-dominated rock & roll... I'm the oddity at the freak show, you know? "

" I haven't made a career off my looks, thank God, but hopefully how I've moved people emotionally, the directors I've been able to work with, and the stories I've been a part of. "

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" I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.' "