I just needed to leave Hollywood.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

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.

I think that it is real important for someone to be really honest and open emotionally. I'm really an emotional person. If I'm that way and the guy isn't that way I just really feel like a jerk.

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.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

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.