Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

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.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

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

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

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