Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.

I was singing before I acted, but I was also attracted to drama, and, y'know, I got successful at that, which isn't a bad thing.

I've never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I've never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn't mean I'm going to step inside them.

So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer.

I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know.

I walk into a restaurant, and people stare as though I've just landed from another planet. Every time I walk out in public, it's like the alien freak show has arrived. It does have its advantages. I hardly ever get bothered by the paparazzi, probably because of some of the more edgy characters I've played in movies.

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.

I haven't made a career off my looks, thank God, but hopefully how I've moved people emotionally, the directors I've been able to work with, and the stories I've been a part of.

I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself.

I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often.

My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it.

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

It's only artists who can help artists.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go.

When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?

I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating.

For me, the most challenging thing was developing myself as a songwriter and as a performer and as the leader of a band. And I just did it.

It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer.

Leaving your home can be a fear at times. You gotta make yourself get out.

Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not a major label act.