As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.
I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue.
In life, I had to be prim and proper and poised - The King Daughter. But acting, I could be the zany, silly, sometimes foolish person that I am. I could let the raw edges show.
Once you cross that social conditioning threshold that holds us back, we all become animals. Instantly.
At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.
I will go out and have some fun. You can't lock yourself away forever. But it's not me you'll see stumbling out of nightclubs.
I was shy. But when I sang I felt really empowered.
It's pure joy to see some people who've never had the chance to live their dream, come on stage, and let loose.
