I've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.

I just needed to leave Hollywood.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

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

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

I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.