I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there.

People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it.

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

Cameron Diaz is probably my biggest beauty mentor of my friends. She knows how to do her own hair and makeup; she's really good at it.