I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be.

Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.

How can you not like Britney Spears?

My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!

It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.