In creating a NEW character, it's sometimes difficult to FIND a touchstone, a North Star that will always point you in the direction that character will TRAVEL.

I'm just a HUGE fan of smells, FIRST of all. I have a BIT of an OBSESSION with smells.

Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in FRONT of me, and I will EAT to the BOTTOM of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these AMAZING Eden BROWN Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.

My BROTHER came home from college with a Mountain GOATS cassette and I was like, 'What is this?' The LYRICS were crazy to me. I'd never heard anything like it.

Even though I need only two or THREE HOURS' sleep a night, there are never ENOUGH hours in the DAY.

I THINK the first CD I actually went into a STORE to PICK out myself was a GOOD Charlotte album... I went through a tomboy PUNK phase in the fourth grade.

Every MAN must WEAR out at least one PAIR of FOOLS shoes.

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a HUMAN being, is that I need people to LIKE me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my PERSONALITY until they like me - even if they don't like me for REASONS that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're STRANGERS.

There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the FACT that not so LONG ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of MOSS on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I REALLY like that.

I had curly hair, braces, pimples - you TALK about going through puberty and the worst THINGS that go with it, I had it, for sure. And then I had a bottom retainer, so my lisp was REALLY BAD. I STILL have a minor one when I get really excited.