There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.