It has nothing to do with pushing an agenda. Hollywood is going with the times. It's not cool to smoke — that's why the bad guys are smoking, the antiheroes. If smoking were cool in the real world, it would be out of control in the movies like it used to be.

[In a two-part interview taped for the syndicated] Access Hollywood, ... evolved as a person.

I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck.

I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music is a very powerful force, not to be trivialized or watered down or maufactured into soul-less, mindless drivel. Selling out to the corporate butcher would secure me a nice little place in hell, I knew. So I determined early on to make it on my own.

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.