Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful in many ways, but they weren't necessarily top of the charts. We were never wealthy because of music. We always had to work and we always had to struggle a little bit, and I think at the end of the day that's been very good for me, because I have a sense of it being very ephemeral.

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.