I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.

The things that make you most mad about the world tend to be the things that you hate in yourself.

What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it's not.

Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.

I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.