I think, ultimately you know in your heart how much work you've done. You know what you're doing, if you're being honest on stage or not. That's all you being you. But when you acknowledges it - especially with a Tony Award nomination - you just can't help with the guilty pleasure!

Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

I don't think I was bullied. If I was bullied, I fought back or turned the other cheek. I have been put in a box, I guess: "Oh you're blonde, you can't play brunette." And I'm always like: "You know what? I'm going to prove you wrong, I'm going to make my hair brown."

What I've noticed about celebrities is, if they are really successful, they're more down-to-earth.