I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.
I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.
Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.
I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didn't know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.
I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.
I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'
I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young. So, I didn't think about it at the time when 'I Am Legend' came out. I just watched it.
I have a lot of things I want to do. I have a lot of fire. I want to do film. I want to do action movies. I want to do period pieces.
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!
I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it.
I am happy and content because I think I am.
If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions.
I love you, not only for what you are,but for what i am when i am with you.
If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can't, I teach. And write.
I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.
