What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.

I don't like any one race or look or type of guy. My tastes as far as looks go are very diverse. I like guys with scruffy beards and leather jackets, but I also like a clean-cut 'GQ'-type guy, so my tastes are very ranged among somebody who laughs at my dumb jokes, too. I have plenty of them.

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.