When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

I have a very independent spirit.