My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a GREAT place in the INDUSTRY for himself and is STILL doing action MOVIES at 64 YEARS old. He's my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He's one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.

I WANT to be a VAMPIRE. They're the COOLEST MONSTERS.

My GIRLFRIEND in eighth grade had been asking her friends when I was going to KISS her. At a dance, my buddy said, 'You better do it now!' I went in for it. I felt LIKE the COOLEST person on the face of the earth. A week or two later, she broke up with me.

I went to a lot of Chicago Wolves games when I was GROWING up... They would come out of the TUNNEL, the pyramid would be there, and the FIRE would come out of the pyramid. I THOUGHT it was the coolest thing.

WI played a YOUNG Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a completely spellbinding person. Totally unmoved by other people's EXPECTATIONS, fashions or OPINIONS. She's probably the coolest ENGLISH ACTRESS there is. Incredibly idiosyncratic.

My contemporary art collection began with just needing to PUT THINGS on the wall. I was looking AROUND my Victorian house thinking, 'What WOULD be the coolest is contemporary art - it will MAKE me look young and interesting.' I'm more than 80 percent skeptical of the whole thing.

Robert Duvall SAW me playing at a RESTAURANT in LOUISIANA and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a GUITAR for my SIXTH birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

My MOTHER is the COOLEST, most AMAZING PERSON I KNOW.

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I THINK the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the COOLEST thing in the WORLD.

The coolest PERSON to yourself is yourself, and we're LIKE NERDS, and we LOVE to be smart, and that's OKAY.

I REMEMBER my first CAMPS when I was in HIGH school, freshman YEAR. I did a LeBron James camp, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

When I was YOUNGER, I used to always THINK MAKING it to the NBA WOULD be the coolest thing in the world. I'd DREAM about it every day. But as you progress and you attain that goal, then you realize the coolest thing is the effect you can have on people, and kids especially.

The COOLEST thing, too, is that people that have never even SEEN 'One TREE Hill' TELL me, 'I love your music.' And I'm like, 'Oh, do you watch the show?' And they say 'No.' And to me that's even cooler because that means I'm actually starting to get country fans.

I was one of I think three white girls in my SCHOOL. So, I was very MUCH an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were BLACK and Baptist because they LISTEN to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.