When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
I used to sing with my father’s jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.
I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.
A lot of people don’t realize that not everybody gets high.
I’m really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.
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.
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.
What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it’s for yourself.
We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.
I don’t have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.
I think once you’re a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.
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 think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it’s hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
I’ve always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.
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.
It’s the universal feeling that we all are alone – that we’re all different. I think the movie’s one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we’re all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.
To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.
Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.
I’ve been acting for so long it’s more like – I won’t say easy, exactly, but there’s not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing – particularly when you’re writing yourself, when it’s you, when it’s your life, you really can’t hide.
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.