You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.

My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd said that I didn't and I don't think I'll ever get the opportunity to say. He's battled addiction problems his entire life. I wish things were different. I wish there were a way my son could know him, know the good parts of him.

I came from a single parent household. And I had a bad example of what a husband and father could be and how irresponsible a father could be. So because of that, I didn't want to get married or have kids.