I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, "All growth is a leap in the dark."

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality

Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through.