I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome.

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

I'm lucky that I got to start acting when I was so young, and people put me in these movies. A lot of people don't get to play these parts because they start a little older.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

I kind of help solve world peace and world hunger. That's just kind of an average day off for me.

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches how to think when we are not writing.

I simply wanted a kiss. I was a freshman girl who had never been kissed. Never. But I liked the boy, he liked me, and I was going to kiss him. That's the story, the whole story, right there.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

When my journal appears many statues must come down.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.