When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.

I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.