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.

I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way. One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs. But I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.