I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.

You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.

You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.

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.

When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, 'Pregnant and Alone!' Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me.