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

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.

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

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.

Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.