Aleksa Palladino

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven are equally evocative.

I've done gospel songs on every album.