I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

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.

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

I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.