My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.

When I go to work and when I'm in the public eye, I take much better care of myself. Because when I'm not working, I do indulge more.

I guess I do a really good job at covering.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.