I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.
I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.
If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.
I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.
I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.
Originally I considered myself a singer.
Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?
Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.
All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.
I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.
Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.
I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.
I think that it is real important for someone to be really honest and open emotionally. I'm really an emotional person. If I'm that way and the guy isn't that way I just really feel like a jerk.
My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.
I don't like being alone. I haven't been alone since I got a boyfriend.
Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.
I've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.
I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.
I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.
Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.
To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.
Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.
Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
