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.

What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?

I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.