Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.
Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.
I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music.
I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.
Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.