Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.

I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.

When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

Music is my first love.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.