The European public has always been great to me.

I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.

Acting is an incredibly gratifying, creative experience when you're doing it. But in the off-season, you want to scratch that itch, and writing has become that to me. It's a really pure form of creativity. It's good for my mental health in the same way reading books is good for me. It makes the day brighter.

But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.