I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.

Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.

I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-girl. Making myself seen. And it was a wonderful time to be young.

The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.