I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.