I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Age is a chronological number. That's all. There is plenty of time for my life afterwards. I'm still a young woman.

The fact that she is a young woman playing a very un-womanlike instrument is really extraordinary, and it is almost a miracle that she is both so young and so accomplished.

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.