I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies.

Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

I already have the weird experience of having a name for myself personally that's connected to someone that's in the public eye. So you have me, Zooey Deschanel, and then there's Zooey Deschanel's public persona.