Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.

Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.

I'm a grown-up and I'm a creative person so I should try to give something to that and see what I can make with that. And not sit around listening to people be like, 'You really should be on an HBO show. You'd be great on an Amazon series.' You're like, 'Thank you, okay. I don't have any offers.'

It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience.

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].