You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor.' And she said, 'Maybe not that.'

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.