Alison Sudol

“I want you to feel in 'Riversong' like you're floating down a river on your back, and you're looking at the stars, and everything is incredibly still and peaceful.”

“I was so afraid of being lumped into this category of female actresses trying to sing.”

“It's hard to constantly delve into your psyche and unearth these deep and often painful feelings and hold them out in front of people and say, 'Here's the most vulnerable part of me.'”

“When you're vulnerable and lost and then suddenly somebody is kind to you and gives you love and gives you tenderness and takes care of you in some way, that creates a huge indebtedness. From there, the likelihood that you're going to follow them anywhere is much higher.”

“I have all sorts of weird albums that people have given me lying around the house.”

“I firmly believe in real-life fairy tales.”

“Especially growing up in Los Angeles, there's just a very different mind-set than my own. There's no 'Romeo and Juliet' in Los Angeles. There's 'Laguna Beach.'”

“Stories have always been incredibly comforting and can help illuminate things that are hard to understand other wise.”

“I always wanted to be an artist of some sort and I was really shy growing up, so performing didn't really seem like a natural choice, but whenever I got on stage to do something I felt more comfortable than I did in real life.”

“I felt I had to choose between being pretty or smart or athletic, and stick to it because if you try to do more than one, you have nowhere to belong. Then music was a boy's world and a lot of times men assumed I didn't know what I was doing because I was young and female.”

“I did a couple auditions, failed miserably, was about to give up, and booked 'Transparent.'”

“I want to go into the margins, into those moments where there's snot hanging out of your nose and things aren't cute and you're not pretty. I'm all for messy. That's what I want to explore.”

“Singing in front of people, I learned a lot more about fragility and strength.”

“In my mind, I'm still that kid who gets affected by other people's music.”

“In L.A. you can be quite isolated, but in London you can ride the Tube and are right in the thick of humanity and every type of person that you can imagine is passing by.”

“I think everyone has their own path.”

“When I am going through something monumental or difficult in my life it is hard to look at it as it is because it is too much.”

“Coldplay's music is so uplifting but not cheesy. You listen to it and you're taken away. It's so honest. There's kindness to their music.”

“I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot of classical music. I just loved all of that.”

“I love Bright Eyes - I absolutely love him.”