"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future.

If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.