I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

I don't really understand it - marriage.