I love meeting FANS. They're always fun, they always have good things to SAY, SMART questions to ask, and plenty of IDEAS for me to explore in the future.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If SOMEONE is TELLING me the truth that is when I will GIVE my HEART.

OLDER TEENS TEND to write to me and SAY, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines GO out the window, and suddenly a marketer can COME in and SELL you new THINGS.

I've ALWAYS been into thrifting. I'm a FAN of FINDING UNIQUE PIECES and having them tailored or altered.

AEROSMITH went on The Simpsons and they had FUN.

When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in EUROPE and I had to lie AROUND a LOT in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to WRITE.

All my BOOKS CENTER AROUND DEATH in some WAY.

This was basically the first time I got to act in action SCENES, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her CAREER - PLAY the person who SAVES the entire world.

INSTEAD of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary WORLDS. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and TOP secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security PRISON; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my HEELS.

PEOPLE don't WANT to GIVE up their SUVs. They don't want to TURN the thermostat down in the WINTER and up in the summer.

ACTING LESSONS teach you to really LISTEN to what the other PERSON is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the LINES.

Fashion intersects a LOT with art and FILM and music, and that was appealing to me. I READ a bunch of fashion blogs and WANTED to be part of the community.

CHELSEA Manning has a PLATFORM to SERVE herself, but many veterans don't even get MEDICAL treatment when they need it.

I GREW up in a HOUSE with all girls, so I'm USED to having a LOT of hormones AROUND that can create craziness.