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

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.

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 wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.