You'd think with all the magazines and the covers and all the sexy stuff I've done, that that's hugely a part of me. But even though I've played those roles and I've dressed up and been on the covers of these things and done this and that, it is all such pretense. So I just thought, "I can't be one of those girls. I wear bib jeans. I don't wear underwear like that. I don't move in the world like that." You know, I'm more bare-footed Rastafarian, crazy.

I just thank god that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects.

I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.