“I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.”

“I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating.”

“Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.”

“I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.”

“I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.”

“I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.”

“I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive's 'Taking Care Or Business' - you'll feel better.”

“In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.”

“I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.”

“I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.”

“When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?”