Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.

I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.