It's never too late for a coffee. After all it's morning somewhere in the world.

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

Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

That people equate being girlie with being nonthreatening … I mean, I can't think of a more blatant example of playing into exactly the thing that we're trying to fight against. I can't be girlie? I think the fact that people are associating being girlie with weakness, that needs to be examined. I don't think that it undermines my power at all.

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

I don't thrive in a word-perfect environment.