I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.

In an industry still dominated by men, working with a female director on an episode written by a woman, helmed by a female showrunner, all while doing scenes with your screen sister is like getting to see the big five at the wild animal park. It's awesome.

Power' is Andy Bean's first television job, ever. Talk about sticking the landing at first go!

I've always found men to be incredible allies, particularly with their perspective.

It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.