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" If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day. "

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" Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock. "

" I was scared by social media - just scared of what I might attract. Once I broke onto that thing, because I needed it for my band to tell people about shows, I realized, 99 percent of the time, people are funny, clever, inventive, beautiful. "

" In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength. "

" When you say you grew up in Los Angeles, a lot of people think the west side: they think the glitz and all this stuff that I actually had no relationship to growing up. "

" The praise for 'Cape Fear' will help me work more artfully - I can work with real artists, like Robert De Niro and the directors, and then go to artland, which is the best land to be in in this world. "

" I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress. "

" Acting is me, but music is even more me. It's everything. "

" I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel. "

" I thrive on adversity. "

" All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more. "

" My parents are just the best. "

" In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble. "

" I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging. "

" I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do. "

" I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do. "

" I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself. "

" I don't have an explosive temper. People seem to think that - maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I'm actually kind of goofy. "

" I'm so used to naysayers. "

" Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles. "

" I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors. "

" Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole. "

" I just care about what I get to unearth and what makes me uncomfortable and what makes me grow because, ultimately, I just don't want to ever play it safe. "

" In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don't have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it's almost a requirement. "

" My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure. "

" It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket. "

" I get lonely - I'm not going to lie about that... I kind of signed up in my mind that I'm giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don't want to be distracted. "

" I was singing before I acted, but I was also attracted to drama, and, y'know, I got successful at that, which isn't a bad thing. "