In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

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' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.

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

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

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.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.