Hayden Panettiere at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards

During a Monday appearance on Good Morning America, Nashville star Hayden Panettiere opened up about the “out of body experience” of motherhood.

“As long as your kids are healthy and happy and all good, I mean, it’s fabulous,” she gushed of being mom to 4-month-old daughter Kaya. “It’s fabulous!”

Hayden went on to say that motherhood has “absolutely” changed her.

“You just re-prioritize… and you hear that they’re healthy and you don’t care about yourself anymore,” the actress, 25, said. “I mean, it’s the most out of body experience where you go, ‘I will completely lay myself on the line for my child,’ without even a hesitation.”

The actress-singer dished about motherhood on-screen as well.

“She’s trying to find herself,” she said of her Nashville character. “As you know, as a mother, you feel like you lose yourself for a second—which you should—and you’re giving yourself and dedicating yourself to another person, but she is terrified that that is going to disappear, that all the work she’s done throughout the years. That’s her identity!”

As for becoming a country music artist herself, Hayden said she would “love to.”

“My only hesitation was that people would not be able to differentiate between Juliette Barnes and myself,” she said of her character. “I feel like I want to dedicate myself to the role that I’m doing. So maybe down the road! Maybe down the road! Maybe down the road! But I’ve got to find myself. I’ve gotta find that route and what I want to be and tell the story, because that’s the greatest thing about country music is that it just has a through line of honesty. It’s telling a story no matter what you’re doing, even if you’re telling a story about partying, you know? It’s honest!”