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.

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

I want to find things that challenge me.

I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script.

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

I have always been very family-oriented. I came from a dysfunctional, broken family growing up, and it's probably instilled in me the need and the want to have a strong family and a great foundation. So I think that is something that I naturally gravitate toward.

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