On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.