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.

- Aleksa Palladino

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

- 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 differe…

- Aleksa Palladino

I do both music and acting at the same time. To me they are both really important parts of how I express myself and understand myself in the world. I…

- Aleksa Palladino

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and…

- Aleksa Palladino

I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the fee…

- Aleksa Palladino

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

- Aleksa Palladino

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

- Aleksa Palladino

I started playing music when I was really young.

- Aleksa Palladino