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.

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

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

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

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.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.