Music is hugely important to me.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

I can fall asleep anywhere.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

I have a lot of girlfriends, but there's something that's so easy for me about hanging out with guys. It's fun, because I feel like they accept me right back, which is really nice.

I think I'm a natural appreciator of comedy. I was definitely not the girl in junior high that all the guys wanted to date. They wanted to date my friends - which was great, because I had to be funny.

I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.