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 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.

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.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.