I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.

As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.

I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care.

When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them.