Are plans for a second season?

I'm just as curious as the viewer. They're very secretive. It's so funny, nobody knows anything. I think that keeps it exciting, too. We honestly can't tell people. Even my mind wanders. I'm like, “What happens to my character?” I have no idea.

On a different note, you've worked on some soundtracks. You went back to school. What else have you been up to?

A lot of doors have opened since I closed one. I think that's what is supposed to happen. Because I left school and decided to do this show, it coincided with being asked to do this score for this film Strange Weather, which I'd never done before. It opened up a lot of time for me to do that score in the spring, which I finished in the summer and it premiered in the fall. I hope that I can continue to do more of that because it was a wonderfully collaborative experience. I've also been trying to write. I have small writing space in Brooklyn. I'm trying to incorporate that into my every day.

Writing for yourself?

Writing to write. I feel really lucky that Jag [Jagjaguwar], my label, is so supportive of any endeavor I want to try. When I told them I'd be acting, they just had a laugh and said, “Good luck.” They're like, “We're not pushing you to make a record. Whenever you're ready. It could be a year, five years, whatever you need to do.” That being said, having that kind of freedom, I've written a lot. I have enough songs to where I could record a record in the next year if I wanted to. In the middle of all that, over the summer... I am pregnant.

Wow, congratulations!

That's going to dictate a lot in the coming year. If there's a season two, I'm due in March. My partner and I are laughing. “Let's see. What can we do?” “Let's just do everything. Let's just try to do as much as we can this year.” Between going to school, acting, doing score work, and trying to be involved now in the community, 2017, especially with the reality of creating a family and what that means, there's a lot of things I want to do this year.

You're back in school, though?

I was in school in the fall, but since I'm due in March, I felt like I would focus January, February on writing, nesting, and taking care of myself until the little guy comes.

In a lot of your interviews from the Are We There time, you talked about the struggle to find balance in life. How is that coming?

I think that's the challenge of the human being. Especially if you're a working creative, you're your own boss. You can't say you don't have time—you make the time and figure it out. You find the right people to surround yourself with that help you make it happen. I was lucky enough to interview Mimi from Low, and I was very curious how they were able to have kids, tour, write, record, have space in their home, and still have their career as they wanted to. They're very deliberate people. Especially as a woman, to go on tour with a child, I was very curious how she did that. This was a year or two ago before any of this happened, but she's definitely one of the biggest influences on my writing and singing.

She said one thing that really rang true: “Your family is everyone that surrounds you, everyone that reaches their hands out. You don't have to know what you're doing going into it. You figure it out because you have the family around you already.” It was really beautiful and made me feel like it wasn't impossible. I never felt like it was possible up until the last few years, with how I was living my life. Things are really good right now. I don't think I'll ever feel perfectly balanced, but I feel like I'm figuring it out and I'm surrounded by really wonderful people that want to see me succeed and be happy. Life is wild.

Are you still interested in mental health counseling?

Yes. I'm going to return to school. I met with the head of the psychology department. He laughed. I told him about the acting gig. He was supportive of it. But he cried when I told him I was having a child and I have to again set things aside. He just said, “Promise me you'll come back.” I'm like, “I'm coming back, as long as you'll have me.” I still have a long journey. I'm only technically a sophomore after this semester. I'm going only part time because I'm giving myself the freedom to still have my creative side in the music world, and acting world now, but I still know that it’s a real passion of mine that I want to pursue long-term. My goal is to become a therapist by the time I'm 50. I'm giving myself 15 years.