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There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'

You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.